What is the point of us?
Discovery Channel has a short filler that asks a good fundamental question: There is a point to vegetation (it provides oxygen from CO2) and animals (as predators/prey, and cleaners), but what is the point of humans?
There is a great thought piece in the New Scientist, Imagine Earth without people. Don’t miss the graphic that is linked from it.
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26 Sep 2007 at 1:48 am [Comment permalink]
Our point: Take care of this giant spherical garden. (Genesis)