Article(print)1993

Has the Human Species Become a Cancer on the Planet?: A Theoretical View of Population Growth as a Sign of Pathology

In: Current world leaders, Volume 36, Issue 6, p. 1089-1124

Hern, Warren M

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Abstract

As the population grows without restraint, human activities steadily destroy the global ecosystem. The human species, through the instrument of culture, has become the dominant force of planetary ecological change. Moreover, the human species now displays all four major characteristics of a malignant process: rapid, uncontrolled growth; invasion & destruction of adjacent normal tissues (ecosystems); metastasis (distant colonization); & dedifferentiation (loss of distinctiveness in individual components). The difference between humans & most forms of cancer is that humans think, & can decide not to be a cancer. 8 Figures, 153 References. Adapted from the source document.

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