I saw “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” yesterday and thought it was really good. Both the acting and the story are engaging, I think it’s worth seeing. The movie is a prequel to the existing movies in which the apes are running the show and the humans are gone.
Humans are the smartest of the great apes. In the this new movie the other apes get smart through a botched experiment and then proceed to initiate the “rise of the planet of the apes.”
It’s a good story but the possible futures for either group of smart apes is likely similar. Once the apes are dominant and the humans are out of the picture, life on earth continues on in normal fashion.
But what if certain other creatures disappeared?
What would the earth look like in 50 years if either insects or humans disappeared from the earth?
If the insects vanished, life on earth would probably be over for most of the other creatures too or radically diminished within 50 years.
In fifty years, if the humans (and the other great apes too) vanished, the world would likely be thriving and look more robust.
Poison is in the dose. There’s nothing inherently wrong with people but there’re just too many of us for the earth to handle now and hopefully we’ll sort it out soon.