You're Fucking Useless
This book started out as a simple question: what is the pinnacle of evolution? As, humans we like to believe that in today’s world that we are the pinnacle of evolution, with nothing in the history of life on earth managing to dominate as much as we have. My first thought for an answer when this question popped up was a crocodile or horseshoe crab as they haven’t needed to evolve in tens or even hundreds of millions of years. Something that doesn’t need to evolve anymore, surely that is the pinnacle of evolution? This book moves slightly on from this topic not only to prove that our arrogance wrong but also to show what we are doing to this world and what our chances of surviving it and every living creature on it are. The aim is to get people think about how useful humans actually are to the environment and the species habituating within it by comparing ourselves to them in various ways.
