Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.