I am not content to be in the superior category, actually I don't care that we are more intelligent than fishes or mosquitoes. It's just the fact, the earth belongs to man, man can do whatever he wants to it. It doesn't justify bad behavior and abuses of course.
Man himself, each of us is food and home to billions and billions of organisms. I've read that, by number, the cells that are contained in your skin are 90% NOT you. They are the others that use us.
We can not, in fact, do whatever we want with the earth withtout killing ourselves. We can not stop the real rulers of earth doing what they have been doing for 3 billion years.
Gould pointed out that 3 billion years ago it was the age of bacteria and that it is
still the age of bacteria. Long after we are gone the bacteria will rule the earth. They are simply far better at carrying on under the widest range of conditions then we are.
Intelligence has not shown itself to a match for their capabilities so far. Maybe it will in the next century or so but right now they have the track record to bet on.
Why should anyone but a human think that intelligence is better than, for example, surviving naked on the surface of the moon or living in hot acid?
Edited by NosyNed, : No reason given.
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