Silly humans.

So every day I pass by an area that had the soil contaiminated at some point. I think it was back in the 70's. But it got me to thinking. We, humans, are incredibly busy creatures. Which is incredibly funny if you think about it. We are one of the ten longest living creatures on the planet and all we seem to want to do is extend our life more and more. We research why other humans have died and try to prevent that. And since we have risen to the top of the food chain by increasing our protection, we have no natural predators. So for every person that dies. Unless it is because the body actually was actually all used up. We try to protect against it from happening again. Which in turn makes our lives longer and longer. But by making our lives longer and longer we are also increasing the amount of people that are still on the planet and need food and water. What happens if we ever run out of food and water. What happens if we actually get world peace? There will be far fewer violent deaths and the population of the world will actually increase faster. We also use our time on earth to create tools that we believe detect things that are bad for us. Hell, every 20 years or so we find a new partical that is atomic or sub atomic. How much smaller are we going to view before we stop? How many more minerals are we going to detect before we determine that everything in the world is bad for us? Are we ever going to just be ok with not trying to protect other humans? Are we going to make cities that are pretty much floating on air in bubbles so that even natural disasters can't destroy them?
I don't know. I don't really care enough to lob for stuff just yet. I am not a tree hugging hippy. Nor am I a scientist that must know why everything works. I don't want to save my friends from everything. I just want to be able to enjoy their lives and however they might interact with my own.