Life After Us

After reading Weisman's Chapters on the the extinction of human beings really made me think. While reading the passages all that went through my mind was ashes to ashes; dust to dust. When contemplated on our existence as humans has been to defy all the odds. Humans unlike other animals are born naked into the world with no protection from any element. For instance some animals have shells when they are born to protect them or others have poison to defend themselves, some can even run as soon as they have been born. As humans we are born with no means to survive. We are born to the mercy of nature. But against all odds we live, survive, and overcome. We defy and use nature to our own wills. We make buildings where there should be hills. We make flat lands where there used to be mountains. We make the energy on earth work to provide us with energy to fuel our drive. But without regular maintenance and care everything would eventually stop working collapse. Without humans around building would collapse and mother nature would take back the lands we stole from her. No matter how hard we hold on and no matter how hard we fight mother nature will be the victor in the end. Bacteria, plants, and animals will all adapt to the environment in which we made and will continue to survive. For it will be pride before the fall for mankind when we do eventually fall.