I'm not subscribing to any idea that man is special. I'm questioning your reasoning.Um, no. The dinosaurs were around MILLIONS of years. They changed the environment in ways that still persist today. Chemical spilloff still consists of elements which were already on earth. You are subscribing to the idea that Man is special in his being, in his history and works...that he alone amongst earth's creatures has the capability to change the environment. It isnt even close to the scale of change affected by the dinosaurs.
Termites have been around for 150 million years. They build mounds in the millions globally, and many ancient ones are still intact today. If you simply moved a spoonful of earth each day for 150 million years, you will have moved more earth than Man has in the past 10000 years. Termites moved much much more than that. When you claim that Man's "transformation of the earth" in no way compares, you are correct. We are nowhere near the level of the amount of change that species such as bacteria, plants, termites, bees, flies, cockroaches, earthworms, fish and others do. Our "transformations" are very very temporary...fading away without a trace in a mere couple of thousand years or so. We just arent all that. We are animals on this planet like all the other animals, not any more or less special than any of them. The notion that Man is special is a narcissistic, self-serving one. He is a peer with the animals around him, not "above" them. The specialness of Man within science is a carryover of Church influence in scientific circles. It comes from the days when scientists believed that the Sun and the heavens all circled the earth, the center of Heaven and the place of the Children of God. This is an incredibly egotistic view of our species, and it stands in the way of understanding our relationship with nature and the environment.
Im using extrapolation. Lets just pick any ONE species of termite, and use that species and cut out the rest (for this example). One termite mound requires the movement of AT LEAST one ounce of earth to create. Multiply that by a very conservative 1 million mounds per year (31.25 tons), for 150 million years and that is 4,687,500,000 tons of earth by just one species. I specified "termites" as a group, including all the species there are, to illustrate how Man's impact on the environment is miniscule by comparison. If we include all termite species, the numbers increase exponentially to a degree that Man's influence is miniscule. We need to also include earthworms, ants and other digging insect species in this. My point is that Man is not special or particularly unique in his behaviors or accomplishments. Much of the technology we have is pointless, or inefficient.
You are wanting to restrict this to termites alone and only one species? Even the scientific classification of "species" is inefficient. A brown termite which is the same as a white termite which is the same as a red termite or a green termite except for the color does not make it something other than a termite, nor does it necessarily make it a separate species. Its why "africanized honey bees" exist (crossbreeding). Separate species should not be able to create fertile offspring. Like in physics, many entomologists seek distinction by identifying a "new species" they can name after themselves and claim the coveted "discoverer" status. My point is that "termites" (all varieties of them) have moved more earth than Man in his existence. Earthworms have moved even more!
I wasnt making a comparison between just Man and termites, I was making the point that insects are more evolved than Man, and that they have moved more earth than Man, and impact the environment more than Man which makes the idea of Manmade Global Warming a ridiculous concept. Im making the point that Man is not special, he isnt the Lord of the Earth, and he is neither the most evolved creature on earth or even the most intelligent. He is Man...that's it.
The second half of the second paragraph is me emphasizing the fact that Man is not special and there is nothing particularly intelligent about thinking Man is the most advanced creature ever to exist and that we can "save the planet" (or destroy it). The Global Warming pundits have been caught fudging numbers and exaggerating to support the notion.
. Well DUH, the climate IS changing. But it is not because of anything Man is doing. It is a natural cycle of the planet, which has been verified by core samples at the Arctic as well as temperate zone fossil strata.
He is a global warning believer. He is an astrophysicist, not an anthropologist, climatologist or archaeologist. Worldwide, the manmade global warming pundits are revising their estimates, their theories and their assessment of Man's impact on the environment. They are now calling it "Climate Change"
Jesus came back for my birthday this year, how sucky is that
The dude in the Bible Ape
For you??What's a "Bible Ape"? Is that anything like a Howler monkey?
You do realize that you (and I) risk being labeled something like "right winger climate change deniers who reject science,like Evolution for example" buy ppl like those in the Obama admin for one, yes?
Unfortunately, the politics of the US is so "team player oriented" that one risks total "destruction" if they drift from their party's views (either side)
that's why I do not have a party
This is one area I differ sharply from the Left. I do believe in climate change, global warming and global cooling (Ice Ages) because several of each are recorded in the rock strata and in ice cores. Unless each epoch has included global industrialization and automobiles, I doubt Man is the reason for any of these climactic cycles or hastening any of them. The science (mostly) fails the global warning screechers. They use fudged, unrealistic models projected way into the future and have incomplete variables. If it were perfected, why cant the NOAA still not make weather predictions past 7 days with any accuracy? But they can tell us that our cars and perhaps even our barbecues are contributing to "global warming"?
Please.
I dont care what people think when I tell them to shove global warming.
