Reply #13: To be human is not to be a parasite. Perhaps an aphid. [View All]

[crikkett]

Everything has a purpose, and everything has a season. You don't bitch at a field overtaken with wildflowers do you?

The planet wants us or we wouldn't be here.

Lose the misanthropy and consider a holistic viewpoint: what evolutionary purpose do we serve by swarming the planet?

First we mixed up people, plants and animals from difft regions (and we have beautiful gardens and glorious food as a result.) Now we're going into space. Perhaps she's ready to bloom and we're supposed to pollinate space.

Or, we could go the way HP Lovecraft did, and think that it's almost time for some alien mothership to come pick up stores of meat.