Question

Construct an argument for whether humans or viruses have had more of an impact on the planet earth as it exists today.

Answer 1

Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on earth by a ground breaking new assessment of all life on the planet.The total biomass of the human race accounts for just 0.01% of the life on the planet.Irrepective of this humans are extremely efficient in exploiting natural resources.Humans have culled,and in some cases eradicated,wild animals for food or pleasure in virtually all continents.Second,the biomass of terrestrial plants overwhelming dominates on global scale and most of that biomass is in the form of wood.Humans just 0.01% of all life have destroyed 83% of wild animals.Every mammal on earth instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but humans do not.They move to an area and multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed .Human numbers grow exponentially as they feed parasitically on the body of earth.No part of the planet is left untouched as they swarm over it,multiplying,polluting,consuming,destroying.

Viruses being three times more in number than humans are although responsible for many epidemic diseases but still they are not more than humans in contributing towards ill impacts on earth.