Do you believe in Mother Nature?

[styley]

There's all this poolava these day about global warming and all the rest and how it's all us human beings and no one else's fault. I was just wondering does anyone else think, like me, that if it gets too much out of control that Mother Nature will take control of the situation and wipe the lot of us out so as to clear the way for a new, more respectful bunch of beings?

[Llamatron]

Er, no.

If anything wipes us out it'll be down to our own stupidity (highly likely) or just some natural disaster like a big rock from space or massive volcanic eruption.

[saxy_jag]

Earth will recover and nature will take care of things as it's done since the earth began. Whether homo sapiens remains the dominant species is something else.

[naomi24]

I also believe that nature will take care of things, as it always does - but I also wonder where the extra tax we're being charged on airline tickets is going. It was imposed, we're told, to assist in counteracting global warming, but where's the evidence that it's being used for such purposes? Does anyone know where that money is going? I have a funny feeling were being conned big time with the global warming issue in more ways than one.

[jake-the-peg]

Yes you're probably right I don't think for a minute that anyone is suggestng that a rise in Eaths temperature would result in the toatal erradication of all life and if we didn't survive (altough i think we would) it's likely that given enough time another species would develop intelligence. Would they be more respectful though I doubt it.

But personally I'd like to avoid another mass extinction if it's OK with you.

[LoftyLottie]

Yes I believe in 'mother nature' and I don't believe we can fight it, although it's human nature to try. Evolution will continue ad infinitum. It makes me feel very insignificant!

[Andyvon]

Styley, I think it's already out of control and the process of human destruction is running away. Nature is already taking its course.

Humans seem to have this idea that they can 'freeze' the planet so that it remains just as it is now. We spend huge amounts trying to stop extinctions, coastal erosion, melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, global warming etc.The fact is, these changes are natural and they have always occurred for purely natural reasons. Whether it is asteroid impact, volcanism, changing orbit around the sun, disease, evolution, all change is natural. That also includes human exploitation of resources and loss of habitat.

Nature always recovers - even at the end of the Permian when 96% of the world's species died out. New species evolve to fill available niches and that is what is happening now. Humans are destroying - not the planet - but themselves and their civilisation. All species eventually become extinct and we are going that way now. We will soon outgrow our resources and destroy our food supplies by expanding over them. It happened to civilisations such as the Maya and Sumerians and we see it everywhere today.

I think the extinction of humans will come from unlimited population expansion. That is the root cause of the world's problems such as global warming, lack of water, overfishing, loss of rainforest, extinction of species. One way of tackling those problems is to address population increase but no one will touch that Instead, we waffle on about sorting out plastic from glass and switching off our standbys.

Looking at the larger picture, humans are as fated to extinction as all those endangered species today. But the planet will recover and new species will evolve to fill the niches. People tend to look just as far as their grandchildren but the planet will be healthy again in several million years. The failed human species will be long forgotten.

[LoftyLottie]

Exactly Andyvon. What a good, articulate answer after my feeble effort!!!

[LoftyLottie]

I also a somewhat dubious about all the medical advances that we delay the inevitable. If we eradicate or minimalise all the main causes of premature death (which I doubt) something else will come about to control the size of the population.

[Goodsoulette]

Yeah I do believe in mother nature. I dont think humans respect the planet very much because its not convenient. I think we could help by nt polluting our planet so freely and by slowing down how much of our natural resources we are wasting.

Global warming does occur naturally but its like we are sitting in a car on a sunny day, why add to the problem.

I did hear the other day that the government are thinking of making it compulsory to feed cows a higher sugar based diet to cut down on methane. I hd to laugh, when you think of all the cars driving around and they think that again penalising farmers is the way to go,.

[boobesque]

Did you never play Final Fantasy VII? Emerald and Ruby weapon will destroy us all

[grasscarp]

Andyvon if you see this - look at ebay for the clock you want - I put a note on your mosques question but dont think you have seen it.

[lady_p_gold]

I believe that Mother Nature is already trying to do that ... Aids, MRSA, Ebola virus, bird flu ... its only a matter of time, there are far too many of us and we are screwing everything up, I don't think of it as some sort of spooky thing, just the fact that there are too many of us and nature usually finds a way of sorting that out.

[taperface]

You are right. We don't take enough notice of nature and what's happening around us. The Goddess will come full circle.

[VS Prasad]

Mother Nature is a personification of nature. Images of women representing mother earth, and mother nature, are timeless. Long before history was recorded, goddesses were worshiped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over Incan, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Roman, Greek, Proto-Indo-European, and Iroquoian fertility religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions.

Algonquin legend says that "beneath the clouds [lives] the Earth-Mother from whom is derived the Water of Life, who at her bosom feeds plants, animals and men". She is known as Nakomis, the Grandmother. People of India
call her Bhoodevi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Nature

http://members.aol.com/ATOYA/Goddess.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Mother