Human Action

Q: Do we revolve around the Earth's patterns, or do our actions shape the way the Earth changes and forms?

-Brittany Guntor

A: This is like asking whether the chicken or the egg came first in many respects. The Earth causes us to act a certain way, which sometimes causes us to alter the Earths Patterns, Which causes us to react again. For example, the idea of global warming. The earth's environment allowed us to make these machines, which affect the environment, which cause us to try to create different machines. This ties in with the chain of cause and effect. In my opinion, the patterns of the Earth affect us more than we affect it however. Mainly because we live on the earth and it's patterns affect multitudes of people. A single individual can not change the earth in any significant way without the help of technology or many other people. 

I do not know why, but this is reminding me of a scene from The Matrix where Agent Smith compares all humans on the earth to a virus. He said that humans use the worlds resources and mold them to their liking, they spread and multiply, and are very hard to completely remove. My question would be is 'Is humankind like a virus?'