What would happen to earth if humans vanished?

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

Er...but that's what life is: suffering.

Hmm... I feel as though we are now entering into a moral/religious component of the question. I do not believe the life of a human must be a life of suffering. I do not consider my life to be a life of suffering. I think our ability to have food and shelter readily available to us through our own ingenuity has, in a sense, freed us from a life of suffering. But I suppose, the animal also does not know its life to be a life of suffering, as it knows no better.