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Post by linnie on Sept 10, 2012 4:14:22 GMT -5
Well, I believe people are significant. First, we are significant since we are harming the nature. If we are insignificant, our act shouldn't harm the nature. If we are insignificant, why is nature greatly impacted? I'm not saying that harming nature is good, but since we have great impact on nature, such as global warming, we are considered as significant.
Another reason that we are significant is that if we extinct, it will alter the nature greatly. Because of our extinction, whole food chain will break. For example, if we are extinct, the chicken will increase in population since the predator is gone. Increase in number of chickens will reduce the number of worms or some sort they eat. If number of worm reduces, than soil won't be that good since oxygen can't penetrate. Like this, absence of human has great impact on environment, thus human is significant.
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Post by KevinW on Sept 11, 2012 5:20:40 GMT -5
I think we may have misinterpreted the story. I do not think the author says or believes that humans are insignificant per se; we are the dominant species and we do fill a huge niche in nature. If we were to disappear, a lot of things in the world--damages we've done, were doing, or could do--would change. Nature would have to adjust itself to our absence.
But it is precisely that--that nature operates as a mechanism, without a care for what we do or our presence because it cannot feel anything.
Nature isn't conscious. It doesn't think. It just follows rules and laws (Evolution by natural selection, or gravity, etc.) and clanks and pulls and moves along no matter what happens.
The poem was written to describe nature reclaiming a battlefield; nature works and clanks and moves and pulls and couldn't care less about who died in the battlefield, how they died in the battlefield, or what significance did it hold for the dominant species.
That, I think, is the author's intent. That nature is callous and mechanical. Which is true.
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Post by JustinK. on Sept 15, 2012 23:19:51 GMT -5
Yes, even though humans can be seen as inferior or insignificant compared to Earth or even the Universe, but everything we do right now affects the environment. For example: pollutions that we create, that damage Earth. Water, land, oil, minerals, ect. have been supported by Earth. We've cultivated the land and turned it into farms or cities. We dig out minerals for building structures and oil for cars. Humans have taken tons of resources out of Earth, which stands that human beings are significant.
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Post by akari on Oct 26, 2012 10:07:43 GMT -5
i think humans are significant. because we are the only people who can feel five senses and use them in a daily life. we can enjoy our life without fighting for foods. we can feel happiness when we do interesting things.
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