Are human beings a planetary cancer?

[ROOBIO]

The human species, through the instrument of culture, has become the dominant force of planetary ecological change. Our adaptations have become maladaptive. Moreover, the human species as a whole now displays all four major characteristics of a malignant process: rapid, uncontrolled growth; invasion and destruction of adjacent normal tissues (ecosystems); metastasis (distant colonization); and dedifferentiation (loss of distinctiveness in individual components). We have become a malignant ecopathologic process. If this diagnosis is true, what is the prognosis? The difference between us and most forms of cancer is that we can think, and we can decide not to be a cancer

[Bas]

Earth has gone through much worse by human standards. Earth doesn't need humans, we are like tiny insignificant bacteria on her skin. We have to worry about not killing ourselves, humans have to start thinking about what's best for humans;) If we kill ourselves the Earth will welcome a new era of dinosaurs just as openly as she has invited us.

[Forestluv]

@ROOBIO Sometimes I imagine the earth as a giant organism. . . if the earth was one giant organism, what would the Amazon forest be like? Perhaps a lung of the organism. What would humans be like? In a sense, humans as cancerous cells is apropros. 

[Aeris]

8 hours ago, Serotoninluv said:

@ROOBIO Sometimes I imagine the earth as a giant organism. . . if the earth was one giant organism, what would the Amazon forest be like? Perhaps a lung of the organism. What would humans be like? In a sense, humans as cancerous cells is apropros. 

Not all humans.

What are the property of something that beat cancer cells ?

If we take this aspect. Then people who massively kill people are doctors.

Some peoples are tumors.

And cleaning your system is more important than everyone dying.

[Dodo]

@ROOBIO From a materialist paradigm you are right. From the truth paradigm, the Earth only exists in and through your experience. 

Edited October 5, 2019 by Dodo

[ajasatya]

Human beings are the planet earth thinking, speaking and typing on the internet.

[Forestluv]

On 10/2/2019 at 2:37 AM, Aeris said:

Not all humans.

What are the property of something that beat cancer cells ?

If we take this aspect. Then people who massively kill people are doctors.

Some peoples are tumors.

And cleaning your system is more important than everyone dying.

Tumors are in conflict with each other all the time. Big tumors kill little tumors so they can get more resources and continue growing. We wouldn’t call the big tumors doctors because they are killing little tumors.

And humans as cancer is just an analogy. No analogy is perfect, they all collapse under enough scrutiny