Chuck D.

I am a firm believer in the diversity of species being derived from a process of natural selection.  Anyone who just takes the time to read the original text by Darwin would have try hard to convince themselves that this process is not afoot.  However, with that said, I must come clean and admit that I do not think humans are part of this process.

The key to the evolution of species through natural selection is that the organisms in question make small, progressive steps to succeed within their environment.  They adapt to the environment, they have no power over the environment, unlike humans.  The plants, insects and animals we see around us today are, by no means the end product of that struggle, rather the versions of those organisms that have survived to this point.  

Evolution and extinction continue today as they have since the beginning of life on Earth.  Animals go extinct every day and no one notices, but in our lifetimes popular animals like the polar bear will no longer exist.  Imagine that for a moment.  Your grandchildren will live in a world where the polar bear is off with the dinosaurs.  This fact is entirely due to Human Beings.

It hasn't taken a long time either.  We didn't start destroying the environment 10,000 years ago, we started 170 years ago with the Second Industrial Revolution.  The planet is 4,000,000,000 years old, we fucked it up beyond repair in 170. That sucks. That really sucks.  How could an organism which has, hands down, won the struggle for existence destroy the Earth that quickly?  The reward for survival goes to the creature who can adapt to the changing environment.  Humans have never adapted to anything!  We  don't adapt, we CHANGE our environment.  Where did we learn to do that?  Not on Earth I reckon.  Somewhere out there, our true home among the stars.

Art, architecture, economy and electronics... these  things are unnatural.  They don't exist here, we made them up!  Maybe one day when the mother ship returns to take us home, the mountains on our planet will be shaped like sky scrapers.  Candy bars will grow on trees.  Rivers will run with Coca-Cola (a poisonous substance on Earth), and the clouds will be made of dioxin.  Ahhhhh, home at last, where the apples don't have seeds, they have microchips.  Animals grow polyester fur!  And "Son... there's plastic in them thar hills."