Humans don't come close to approaching the largest biologically-caused extinction events. Cyanobacteria wiped out most other species on earth: https://en.wikip

Humans don't come close to approaching the largest biologically-caused extinction events. Cyanobacteria wiped out most other species on earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event Birds caused mass extinctions and extreme evolutionary pressures: https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/06/giant-insects.html https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/06/giant-insects.html Trilobites - one of the most diverse, plentiful, and advanced forms of life at the time - went extinct thanks to the evolution of plants. If you take a snapshot during any of those events, a brief glimpse, sure those events were cataclysmically destructive. But step back and those events can instead be seen as fantastically creative. It is anthropocentric to view the preservation of the ecological status quo and cessation of evolutionary pressures as a "natural" ideal. Humans like things that make life easy, but we also don't like change. I am not opposed to environmentalism and imposing our curated view - but it shouldn't be guilt-ridden. We shouldn't tell lies about what is natural for life by cherrypicking examples of equilibrium and ignoring the trillions of extinct. The equilibrium you see in other species (ants, birds) only exists due the destruction of countless other species. Akin to an alien observing the seemingly stable equilibrium between humans, cockroaches, and pigeons. Life survived despite incredible climate pressures and invasive species in the past - far more extreme than what is happening now - and reached new levels of complexity thanks to those pressures. There's no reason that will stop.