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Originally Posted by Burninator
You could make a case that humans are not very smart in terms of there long term survival. We destroy our environment and continue to do so. Animals typically don't destroy their environment, but rather adapt to it and live in it, rather than dominate it. We fight with each other over non-survival issues. These are just a couple of examples, and some food for thought.
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That is actually quite untrue. In some environments, some animals have eaten all their prey and suffered because of it. I remember back in the 80s David Suzuki saying about the Newfoundland cod stocks that if Canada stopped overfishing, that would make man the first species to recognize that it is overconsuming a food source and make moves to correct it (of course, we didn't and the cod stocks are still decimated).
But look at the rabbits in Australia... their overabundance has destroyed their habitat and their food source.
Humans are destroying their environment because they are acting like the natural animals that we are. Not the reverse.