Great interview and a fresh perspective. Life, as in the totality of species on Earth, is incredibly resilient. As much as we impact the environment, as long a

Great interview and a fresh perspective. Life, as in the totality of species on Earth, is incredibly resilient. As much as we impact the environment, as long as the Earth remains hospitable to us it will remain hospitable to a huge number of other species. That's enough for me. I don't worry about a few individual species that grab headlines, I worry about the long term viability of Earth to host life, and the long term viability of humanity. I don't accept equivocation about humanity's place on Earth. We are the pinnacle of evolution on this planet, because we build. We build glorious physical and theoretical structures orders of magnitude greater in complexity and power than anything else. Before us life was defined by endless struggle, individuals doing the same thing their ancestors did until their species were either wiped out or evolved into other forms that would carry on doing the same thing for millennia. They understood nothing of the world. They were powerless in the face of nature. But then humanity comes along, and we take control of our own destiny instead of being caught under the heel of the uncaring natural world. We shape our own behavior. We define our own goals. We rocket off this planet into space. We are Gods, and our ascension only continues. So I don't waste too much existential anxiety on the fate polar bear.