We were talking in class the other day about the dinosaurs. The discussion was about how they existed for 165 million years, but humans have only been in existence for half a million years and we’re already close to destroying the world. Just for reference, that is 165 million years dinosaurs existed without polluting, degrading, or dirtying the world. Humans managed to do all of that in roughly a third of the time.
We determined that our power of higher thinking was the reason for our destruction of the world. Since other animals lack the ability to build things and create things that are harmful to the environment, the earth was a healthier place without us. It is safe to say that the earth would still be healthy if humans had never evolved.
Or is it?
My question is this, Do you believe that if humans had never evolved and become a free-thinking and intelligent species, another species might have evolved in such a way? Now, before you answer, think about this: by being the most intelligent species, human being are filling a niche. We’re the top of the food chain and are able to domesticate lesser animals. If we weren’t here to do it, who would? Oh, and just for fun…if you answer “yes” to another species evolving to fill our place, which species do you think it would be?
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