Don’t worry about the Earth, it will survive humans

The idea of protecting the Earth and it’s ecosystems comes deep within our misunderstanding of this planet’s history. The Earth has gone through many cataclysmic events. The last disastrous event wiped out the dinosaurs and many other living species. But here we are, the Earth is still there, teeming with lives of millions of different species. Although the planet’s survival is inevitable, as long as the sun shines, living things on Earth don’t possess the Earth’s incredible survival capacity. And we humans may one day face the cataclysm for which we are responsible. Chances are we are very unlikely to survive global warming, climate change, severe drought, floods and many other manmade disasters.

            There is a big question we should ask ourselves: Do we have the time and the potential needed to reverse the changes and save ourselves and our civilizations? Yes we do.  Look at your surroundings and see the enormous technological advances we have achieved. You start to think that we are capable of almost everything we want. We just have to stop prioritizing money and start thinking about getting together to solve the worldly problems we have. Right now we are suffering from hunger, religious conflicts, global warming, illiteracy and many other serious problems. We probably won’t see the next century if we don’t take immediate actions to limit our willingness to exploit the natural world. Because of our excessive resource consumption, the Earth will run out of the oil we so badly need. But look around you. We have managed to turn the fifth largest planet of the solar system into an interconnected small village, where the outermost place is a click away. Can’t we use technology to generate power without using oil? Can’t we recycle our plastics? We can do many other great things to solve the toughest problems of our time. I always have faith in our brains and conscience. I go with Carl Sagan, who once wrote “For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.” We have traveled to the moon and have seen the most distant galaxies. We can’t afford to wait for the demise of our time.