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The future of diversity

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Ryno
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anyone that took any sort of environmental class or geography or anything knows that the diversity of the forest is its strength.

without diversity, there is no defense against diseases.

look at Elm trees, the Dutch Elm disease is killing them off like crazy right now but the elms that are deep in the forests are safe.

so what about humans?

diversity should be the same right?

Is globalization right? well, everyone knows the main pros and cons to this issue but what about the future of diversity?

the more we homogenize our society, the weaker we get in terms of evolution of the species.

so what the fuck are we doing?

i dunno where im going with this one either but this issue of diversity hit me when i was writting an exam and the question was on degredation of the forests in Thailand and how it affects the surounding area.

just made me think about how weak the forests got in Thailand the more they were homogenized after a clearcut with the planting of only one type of tree afterwards.

it will take 10-20 years for those forests in Thailand to grow back.

it would take 1-2 for them to be totally destroyed by disease.



even with all the medical breakthroughs today, we still cant fuck with nature. It still have a step up on us. We are nothing but another species on this planet.

Now matter what you think, nature controls us. Yes, we can fuck with nature (co2 emmissions) but it will fuck us right back twice as hard.


man the world is a fucked up place...
May 12 2006 9:44PM
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jib_kid_01
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the problem is that with modern break throughs in medicine and technology we have effectively stopped our own evolution
May 12 2006 9:54PM
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Ryno
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thats a good point also...

We are fucking with our own nature and mother earth is fucking us back twice as bad by not letting us evolve.
May 12 2006 10:10PM
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marsland
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so basically, by making us the dominant species on the planet, we are more likely to get wiped out by disease. i think that is likely because if we are the only living things left, then disease can only affect us, so if we have a bunch of the same species in the same area, they are more likely to all die of disease than if the area was diverse? this is because if the area was diverse, then the diesase would have to go through genetic mutations to affect the different species.


am i even close or how wrong did i interpret what you said?
May 12 2006 10:21PM
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jib_kid_01
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right, because if there was a disease we would be so genetically similar that nobody would poses traits that can overcome that diseases. If an epidemic broke out the only way we could beat it would be if we let it run its course. Survival of the fittest... otherwise it will keep mutating and we wont thus fucking us
May 12 2006 10:31PM
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Ryno
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No...thats not it.

Look at the dinosaures. They dominated this shit for millions of years and it took a damn astrotriod to whoop there ass.




Btw, Simple organizisms (bacteria) mutate and evolve much quicker then complex ones (humans)
May 12 2006 10:33PM
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MitchPee
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I wouldn't say stopped...just slowed. Evolution takes time to see the effects.
May 12 2006 11:09PM
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mattster
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I think that medicine is good, for that very reason ryno, evolution is slow, smallpox is fast, you can't wait for evolvution because it takes far too long and woln't matter because the entire species will be wiped out because the virus mutates much faster than the host
May 12 2006 11:41PM
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fappy
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yep. i wanna go round robin through all the races...black, arab, asian, native american
May 12 2006 11:53PM
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Ds91260
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who cares, we'll kill the environment before anything has a chance
May 13 2006 1:29AM
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