I don’t think people really understand just how close of a call that was. Or they also don’t really appreciate just how amazing and unique and precious life is in general. The human race isn’t worth the sacrifice of all future life on the only planet we’ve ever know to be capable of having it. As far as we know, what is on earth is fucking it and at the very least life is an incredibly rare phenomenon let alone an entire planet full of it, if I were to believe in any sort of divinity or that earth is special it’s because of how absolutely I likely life is. We have it here and in absolute spades. That alone is weird and amazing. We are a pretty neat life form, don’t get me wrong but I’d rather see every single one of us dead than another species of animal go extinct. Not eco fash, cause I am a human and therefore would like to see us do better but I’m not going to say the world wouldn’t have been better off had we never left the trees. I don’t think we’re compatible with a sustainable planet ever. We’re an animal ourselves but holy fuck we are the ultimate invasive species that brings other invasive species, we are absolutely hazardous to all life we can’t manipulate to our own advantage be it plant, animal, fungus, bacteria or otherwise. I’ll do whatever to keep going and try to make the human race better, but I’m honestly pretty sure we’re just worse news than mosquitos and the flu. Even in the stone age we were absolute extinction machines. And just cause we had the power to turn a mini ice age into a co2 catastrophe absolutely does NOT mean we have the power to reverse it even if we tried, we kinda did but the overall idea we can undo any damage we do is what got us into this mess. I generally just don’t think the earth can sustain an industrial human population at all. I’m all the way here for ingenuity if it occurs, but what we never have really seemed to learn as a a species in general is that there is a game over screen. And i think we will most likely reduce the earth to a planet only unique for it’s water at least for a few billion years. Some life will probably survive but what that life would be would basically restart evolution from scratch (I know it wouldn’t really cause that’s not how evolution works but you get the metaphor here, it’s a hard reset for earth)

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