Evolution isn't what the majority of people think it is. It's defined as a mutation in an organism's DNA which can have a negative or positive affect on the organism. It's not like, the world gets hotter so the animals and plants gradually become better suited for the changing environment.
So people who think global warming is happening slowly enough for the living things on our delicate planet to adjust are dead wrong. We can't expect that. From fellow animals, or ourselves.
It's not something we can control.
Imagine for example, seals. Orca Whales are their natural predators. Say a seal is born with an abnormally large tail due to a messed up gene that allows it to out-swim the whales, and catch fish better than the other seals in the area. It survives, mates, passes down the 'big tail' gene, and soon there's a whole population on seals with larger tails. The normal seals die out because they can't catch food and get eaten, and eventually go extinct.
THAT is evolution. A fluke mutation that turns out helping the species.
Survival of the fittest.
People, however, don't evolve this way anymore. We force out surroundings to evolve to suit us. We don't have any natural predators anymore because we can't accept the idea of death.
We even created religion, with an after life, to ease the thought of it all ending.
These mutations that happen in nature are considered to be 'abnormal' in our society. If someone is born with an extra toe on each foot they're a 'freak', and get the extras removed immediately.
Humans hate being different.
It's SUPPOSED to happen that way!!! No one sees it...
I agree that dying of a disease is awful, people in my family have died of lung disease and blood clots and I know my share of cancer patients as do most people in the world.
These things are sad and a horrible thing to have to deal with but at every opportunity we treat them.
Humans have no natural predators and now we've begun to eliminate the toll of illness.
The natural world has disease and predators to keep the populations regular. It's not natural for a population of animals to grow as rapidly and as endlessly as ours does It's ruining the planet and the other life-forms that live here with us. And now we're moving out into our solar system looking for another place to live once conditions on earth get too bad. I doubt they'll be taking a pair of every breed on that space shuttle.
Humans have ultimate power in our world and we abuse it. That power can be used to help the ecosystem, but instead we're killing it.
Did you know that every green paper-recycling bin full to the top is one tree? How many of those do you fill a month? How much more don't you recycle?
Sure you're recycling, but how many of those bins does any other animal fill?
We abuse the power we have as people, and it's never gonna stop.
No other species or breed of animal has the starvation rate that humans have. Because they don't have overcrowding like hums have. We run out if supplies that we need for life because there simply isn't enough to go around.
It's a real problem. I'm not saying we should just let people die to lower the population, not at all! I'm just saying that, if we're going to continue this way, we need to find a way to balance ourselves with the other estimated 50 million species on our planet before it's too late.
I told you it was dangerous for me to think too much :\
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