Personally, I think the best-made point about humans on Earth was in the movie,
"The Matrix", when the alien "overseer" whined about being here so long but
after observing us all that time he had come to the conclusion we are not
mammals, we are a virus.
PJ.
(who would love to see more of this on Backstage)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Greypins@a...
To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:56 PM
Subject: [vocalist] OTW: humans - an introduced species?
as long as we're on such earth shattering subjects so near and dear to
our hearts, i thought i would toss this idea out (hey! maybe it'll get me
banned from vocalist...).
anyway, about ten years ago, i saw a segment of one of those midweek
60minutes clones covering the rabbit problem in australia. the rabbit is
not indigenous to australia so, it has no natural enemies (although, i'll bet
if you put a bunch of them out on the reef, the sharks would break down and
adapt). rabbits, with their gift for rampant fornication,
reproduce...uh...well, they reproduce like rabbits, so, there are tons and
tons of them and their numbers are out of control, causing all sorts of
'rodent' problems.
similarly, some kind of snake has made it big on the island of guam (i
can't remember what kind of snake it is and, i think it was first brought
over as a pet). the snakes have gotten loose, reproduced and are helping
themselves to large helpings of the islands songbirds.
here in the south, the japanese botanical equivalent to the chandra levy
story, kudzu, is spreading itself everywhere (however, in the nine years
since i have been here, the growth seems to have faded. i believe the
menace has been halted by over development).
the ultimate point of this post is to compare the spread of human beings
all over the planet, seemingly without natural enemy, living beyond the
support of its environment (at least, compared to other species who live 'in
balance' with their environment), to these other introduced species who have
posed similar problems to the areas they have been introduced.
as this is just speculation, it goes without saying that guessing who
introduced our species would also be speculation. one would also have to
wonder if that includes all humans or just europeans as, native americans,
primitive tribes in south america, new guinea, etc. seem to be able to live
'in balance' with their surrounding environments.
perhaps, the design is not meant to go on and on and we are the species
sent to bat clean-up.
mike
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