WHY HUMANS?


Currently, our species have over-populated the earth and as a result we are consuming all its resources to survive at an alarming rate. Need we go into the figures, it stands without question that at the rate we are reproducing we can eventually decimate its resources and wipe out every major animal on the planet. Clearly, we are the most dangerous species here. In fact, we cannot seem to tolerate any other species that reaches a level where it is a threat to us. When we thought the timber wolf was a threat through predation of our livelyhood of cattle--we wiped it nearly out. But then after we noticed how we had nearly destroyed it, we felt sorry for what we did and gave it another chance by replacing wolves back into areas where they once proliferated. But suddenly we noticed that they were a threat and again started trapping and shooting them.

That's how we treat other species that are a threat to our predominance over the earth--i.e., we wipe them out.

Then why, might we ask, should the planet want us here, since we are in effect, destroying it, wiping it out at an alarmingly rapid rate? Let's think about it for a moment. Many theorists seem to believe that other species are bending space and time to come help us evolve from galaxies millions of light years away. As a matter of fact, evolutionary theorists firmly support the idea that survival is a wholistic plan--that somehow, the species which evolves the biggest and best brain is really extremely important to the Whole and perhaps should have special rights to occupy most of its space. I question that thinking. Some people even seem to think we are so important that we shouldn't be too controlled less we be denied the status we have achieved--by virtue of our mighty intellectual, fore-frontal appendage. Isn't that really why we make such a big show of testing our magnificent IQ's--to determine the highest scores, just to see who is the smartest? As if intelligence has something to do with the right to survive at the expense of some smaller brained species! Of all the absurity!

I mean, let's be real. Why should the collective planetary mind be willing to help humans survive above all other species on the earth? What's so special about us, after all, aren't we the species that are destroying the environment for all the rest?

So--why humans? I pondered this question closely and discussed it with many people, read treatises by a number of the 'chosen thinkers' of our species and finally came up with a possible reason: the planet doesn't really want us at all, in fact it wants to end our ruinous reign, and it is working on our final demise right now!

But then it really hit me-that's it--we as a species are facing a territorial imperative from the planetary spirit, and the imperative is, either clean up our act--which we are slowly awakening to--or get off the planet!

We better listen my fellow humans to the message that is coming loud and clear, it is unmistakable. Intelligence may not have anything to do with survival of the fittest, but survival of the Whole.

Nahu Lanham