Overpopulation is such a problem today, and yet we continue to allow ourselves to spead to every corner of the planet. And we continue to strive to keep as many people alive as we can, seeing life as sacred isnt wrong, but seeing how people are spreading uncontrollably, and destroying so many other species as we go, the sanctity of life seems to be the last thing on our minds.
Modern medicine is supposed to let us all live longer and healthier, but does it? Diseases continue to mutate and we get more and more deadly viruses and bacterium. Which we counter with more and more of our own medicines. THe cycle continues. Some time in the future I feel there must be a limit, where either the diseases win, wiping out most of the human race in one mighty epidemic, or humans manage to find the answer to preventing disease and spread out over the planet and most likely to other planets too. Seeing as they are always one step ahead of us, with humans struggling to find cures to new diseases, i cant help feel a little pessimistic.
And pharmaceutical companies are more interested in making money then curing people (well thats the impression i get). The drugs they produce stop the symptoms from showing up, but are they really curing us?
Getting back to overpopulation and natural selection (yes that is the title of this post!) medicine has completely screwed up nature's way of removing those who are not fit to survive. Ok that sounds really terrible of me, but its true, and i'm not saying we should just let those we are not fit/get sick die or anything, but I see disease as nature's attempt to stabilize the population of living things. The effects of our messing with nature and evolution (if you believe in it) will certainly be seen one day, but not in our lifetimes.
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some of the effects of medicine have turned up pretty fast. the widespread use and misuse of antibiotics has already led to strains of increasingly virulent multiple antibiotics-resistant disease eg. cholera and malaria. another interesting idea my prof threw out was his hypothesis that the extinction of the passenger pigeon led to the emergence of lyme disease in america - one way that our meddling with the ecosystem has had direct (negative) results towards our species.
we have different opinions when comes to you saying, disease is a way to eliminate those who are not fit. but i find this is something rather hard to argue. becoz when comes to being in that term, i came to think that, maybe i sud be eliminated at the first place becoz obviously i'm not fit enough. controversial eh?
I believe there's always a natural equilibrium; sooner or later Mother Nature will smite us for raping her ecosystem with wanton disregard. Hopefully by then, our decendants would have either a)thinned out amongst the galaxy to reduce the drain on Earth, or b)be so efficient as to not distrupt the balance anymore. I personally lean to a). =p
Hey dude, long time no see. How's summer?
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