When extinction is thought about most people think about dinosaurs or different varieties of plants and animals, but what about humans? Most people do not consider humans when talking about extinction because they still exist and a world without humans seems implausible. The only problem with not considering humans when talking about extinction is that humans did not always exist and there was once a world without us. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells touches on the future of the human race and what humans look and act like in the future. Wells travels further into the future where there is no sign of human life but green slime that proves life still exists (Wells 66). It is arguable that Wells is talking about the extinction of mankind because
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Some of the things that could cause extinction include: the species is being hunted too much, climate change, or a natural disaster. Although mankind has not been extinct yet many animals have gone extinct according to Wells Scientific Journalism, “The long roll of palaeontology is half filled with the records of extermination; whole orders, families groups, and classes have passed away and left no mark and no traditions upon the living fauna of the world” (Wells 137). The argument that Wells makes in his journal is that whole groups of animals have gone extinct before and if this can happen to animals then who is to say it cannot happen to humans. “Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was--far less than any monkey. His prejudice against human flesh is no deep-seated instinct” (Wells 50). Wells explains, in The Time Machine, that man no longer cares about what he is consuming because so much of the earth has gone extinct and there are fewer things that are surviving. This connected back to the scientific journal where Wells argues that paleontologists are constantly finding many species of dinosaurs and whole families and groups of dinosaurs going extinct without a trace. If this can happen to dinosaurs, which are much larger than humans, who is to say that this cannot happen to humans. Wells …show more content…
Wells very clearly depicts what could happen if humans continue on the path that they are in which involves destroying the earth and an extreme case of Darwinism. By arguing that this book is about the evolution of mankind we overlook the very obvious: that humans are not the superior species. Ultimately, the time traveler notices that in the future there is no human life just green slime which is the only sign of life. If we begin to forget that, as humans, we need to empathize and care for one another we will eventually kill ourselves off and ultimately lead to our, human,
Some of the things that could cause extinction include: the species is being hunted too much, climate change, or a natural disaster. Although mankind has not been extinct yet many animals have gone extinct according to Wells Scientific Journalism, “The long roll of palaeontology is half filled with the records of extermination; whole orders, families groups, and classes have passed away and left no mark and no traditions upon the living fauna of the world” (Wells 137). The argument that Wells makes in his journal is that whole groups of animals have gone extinct before and if this can happen to animals then who is to say it cannot happen to humans. “Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was--far less than any monkey. His prejudice against human flesh is no deep-seated instinct” (Wells 50). Wells explains, in The Time Machine, that man no longer cares about what he is consuming because so much of the earth has gone extinct and there are fewer things that are surviving. This connected back to the scientific journal where Wells argues that paleontologists are constantly finding many species of dinosaurs and whole families and groups of dinosaurs going extinct without a trace. If this can happen to dinosaurs, which are much larger than humans, who is to say that this cannot happen to humans. Wells …show more content…
Wells very clearly depicts what could happen if humans continue on the path that they are in which involves destroying the earth and an extreme case of Darwinism. By arguing that this book is about the evolution of mankind we overlook the very obvious: that humans are not the superior species. Ultimately, the time traveler notices that in the future there is no human life just green slime which is the only sign of life. If we begin to forget that, as humans, we need to empathize and care for one another we will eventually kill ourselves off and ultimately lead to our, human,