Are Humans and the Earth Enemies of Each Other

There is a quite large but controversial effort to identify the time in pre history when humans began to alter the earth's environment. The goal is to identify in rock formations or deep sediment a time period when fundamental changes began. If they find the changes and identify a time they would trace the population of humans and see if they might have caused the earth to change.

We often identify our carbon load as beginning in the 1950's with the popularity of the automobile. Before Europeans settled the U.S. earlier people deforested large areas. Humans probably were deforesting many places on earth tens of thousands of years ago.

The rock/sediment search, if it reveals something, would change the argument about man's effect on the earth. It is often claimed "natural forces" are causing climate change and it has nothing to do with human activity. Evidence "written in stone" would take away that argument.

I think the evidence humans are affecting our climate and ultimately our ability to produce food is overwhelming. That others deny this evidence is something I do not understand.

Deniers seem to being saying that because past time tables for disaster have not turned out to happen on schedule we can relax and conclude man is not affecting the environment at all. That it did not happen on schedule does not mean it will not or cannot happen.

The denial of human impact on earth was put in place by those who wrote the Bible. They declared man's right to exploit all the earth's resources and its animals. If "God" said this how could we think we are hurting the environment with our consumerism?

If there actually were a God I don't think he/she would allow humans to slice, dice and butcher the earth like they are doing. That it's happening is evidence there is not a God.

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  1. Ardy BAugust 8, 2019 at 5:04 AM

    “The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
    — Friedrich Nietzsche

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  2. Jon LindgrenAugust 8, 2019 at 7:05 AM

    Thanks Ardy

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