> There is no doubt about that. But it has also brought us into a mass extinction (that's happening right now), it brought climate change (it will add to the biodiversity issue), and it relies very heavily on fossil fuels which are not unlimited.
There have been 5 mass extinctions in known history. Probably more. Pre-anthropocene. The universe has no morality, there is no "natural order". Whether or not a mass extinction is happening right now is irrelevant in the universal scope of things: it would happen eventually anyway.
Maybe Yellowstone finally goes in a thousand years - geologically that would be "right now" as far as a future historian is concerned.
A mass extinction is terrible solely because of the impact it may have on humans, on human life. That's it.
> A mass extinction is terrible solely because of the impact it may have on humans, on human life. That's it.
Sure, I agree. But as it happens, I am a human, and I want to live in a society where I as a human don't have to experience a mass extinction.
I don't want to survive in a capsule on Mars, or even in a capsule on Earth once it's impossible to live outside on big parts of the globe. I want to live on Earth, with some amount of biodiversity. And I want to change society to achieve that.
There have been 5 mass extinctions in known history. Probably more. Pre-anthropocene. The universe has no morality, there is no "natural order". Whether or not a mass extinction is happening right now is irrelevant in the universal scope of things: it would happen eventually anyway.
Maybe Yellowstone finally goes in a thousand years - geologically that would be "right now" as far as a future historian is concerned.
A mass extinction is terrible solely because of the impact it may have on humans, on human life. That's it.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mass-extinctions