Natural selection

It pisses me off when people talk about how we need to save everything.
[Species] is going extinct; we need to save it!
[Language] is going extinct; we need to save it!
The world is changing! We need to stop it!

Extinction is entirely natural. Just because a species of animals is going extinct doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Some species are just unsuited to new situations. You think species never went extinct before humans? Of course they did.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to just kill everything. But stability is a human-invented concept. I even think global warming is entirely natural. Ever seen a graph of world temperature versus time? Look one up sometime. Try to find one spanning a few hundred years and you'll see my point: it CHANGES.

I could go on for ages about this in multiple different subjects. So I'll just end it with this: some things do just die. Am I the only one unsaddened by animal/language extinction, global warming, etc.?

Voting Results
70% Normal
Based on 47 votes (33 yes)
Help us keep this site organized and clean. Thanks!
[ Report Post ]
Comments ( 5 )
  • MBakke

    Of course species going extinct is a bad thing, you god damn retard. It's the massive revolution of humans that causes it, not natural selection. Misleading title.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
  • tori

    If extinction of a species is our fault, then shame on humans. Shame on humans for killing tigers because they may have special powers to heal. And any other animal that we do that to.

    Global warming is natural. When I was in Alaska, I saw where there was atleast 3 different times when glaciers were at this spot. You could see the carved out earth from each glacier period. We didn't cause the first glacier melt. We weren't around then.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
  • Isolated

    Oh and it's normal because some people turn their backs on things like preventing air pollution in other countries.

    As long as they think "at least it's not affecting me", they'll never try to consider helping out.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
  • Isolated

    Just think that some of the animals/plants that go extinct might disrupt the food chain. Then other animals will die off, then later humans would become endangered.
    Besides evolution takes time so it's not like we'll suck on the air for food when we lose edible plants or animals.

    Other than that, I don't think you have to worry right now because everythings not going to disappear in a couple of years.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
  • ComboBreaker

    What people dont take in is that there are new species being discoverd just about every day. Letting one or two die off isnt going to be the end of the world... depending. But if humans are the cause for a species dieing then it's our responsability to save it. I agree though, if a species dies off because of its own inability to servive. Unless we can gain something from it, let it die. Although, humans have the ability to do what ever we want. Includeing the delay of an entire species exstinction. Because we can, we do. We usely dont though unless its to our benifit. If we liked eating tigers, there would be an abundance of them. If we used pandas instead of horeses, not only would it be fun but there would be many, many pandas and panda raceing bookies. Its debateable if you could breed pands in such a way. But if we can do it to dogs, cats, horses, cows, pritty much everything... pidgions. We can do it to pandas. People are against this though. Call it un-natural. Granted it's un-natural, but so is chocolate. Yes, thats right. Chocolate makes their argument invalid! Though the impact it would have on certain species, the world... Farming has proven to leave a carbon footprint, quite contributional to the speed up of global warming. Natural it may be, we can't denie that our industrial and agricultrul (still half asleep) ways, have sped up the process of... global repositioning... is think. That or the sea raises a bit, volcanos create new land and world war breaks out to own the new land. No actual repositioning of current land. Lands will sink though, kinda like the land from england to france... I think it is. Could be wrong. Either way, we do "it", because we can. Normal... and gave me something to do for the past 10-20 minutes.

    Comment Hidden ( show )