short communication | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/IJBR-2021/002
Department of Plant Molecular Biology & Ecology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences. Tel Aviv, Israel.
*Corresponding Author: Michael Gurevitz, Department of Plant Molecular Biology & Ecology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Citation: Gurevitz M., (2021) Self-extinction on verge – an illogical reality International Journal of Biomed Research.1(1). DOI: 10.31579/IJBR-2021/002
Copyright: © 2021, Michael Gurevitz, This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received: 03 February 2021 | Accepted: 06 June 2021 | Published: 23 February 2021
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The self-perception of mankind is top of either creation (religious) or evolutionary pyramid (scientific). This is based on our developed brain, creativity, and successful spread world-wide, despite physical weakness and limited tolerance to extreme changes in the environment.
The self-perception of mankind is top of either creation (religious) or evolutionary pyramid (scientific). This is based on our developed brain, creativity, and successful spread world-wide, despite physical weakness and limited tolerance to extreme changes in the environment. When such changes occur due to cosmic effects, which luckily have not yet destroyed Earth, not much that we can do. But when extreme changes on Earth, that slowly but surely ruin our life and in the long run may lead to extinction, are instigated by human actions, where has the survival instinct of our species gone? Instead, we witness a confusing reality where little is done to avoid global man-made catastrophes. Not only that in this reality we are unable to protect our planet from asteroids or deep-space detrimental irradiation, the massive contamination of the environment, endless clashes among nations that may deteriorate to nuclear or biological destruction, as well as public apathy, may seem like madness to an outsider (“why do they destroy their only home planet”).
Can this reckless human behavior be explained?
A common belief among people is that if nothing dreadful happened to Earth during thousands of years of our existence, it won’t happen in the near future. This short looking view succeeded by unexplained mind fatigue may result from pressures of daily survival and worldwide compulsory struggle over resources, but, is mostly based on ignorance. It seems that our brain developed circuits of optimistic defaults to withstand a distressing reality, which otherwise might induce melancholy and depression leading even to suicidal behavior. Consequently, the dominating trend is “why bother now about future unclear dark theories” (“after us the deluge”).
Another impediment that adds to the public apathy are the confusing declarations of some scientists that all those environmental changes will dissipate and the “dark prophecies” are just imaginative. According to them, our planet overcame catastrophes like the ice age, a major hit by an asteroid, or terrible pandemics, and so it will overcome “temporal extremes” or intimidations such as: melting of poles and increase in sea level; depletion of protecting compounds in the atmosphere (e.g., holes in the ozone layer); deforestation and increase in temperature due to the greenhouse effect followed by frequent extreme weather conditions; bleaching of coral reefs signifying increase in ocean temperature; extinction of many species (animals, photosynthetic organisms) which harms ecosystems and food chains (e.g., major decrease in number of pollinating bees); nuclear and biological threats by crazy regimes.
Amazingly, the risks to humanity do not seem to occupy the minds of most world leaders, not to say the mind of almost the entire population on Earth. Considering the initial devastating signs that we face nowadays, when extreme alterations may deteriorate to unbearable global changes that endanger our existence, the present apathy is quite astonishing and in psychiatric eyes might seem to be insanity or even kind of suicidal behavior of the “top ranked species”.
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