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> Humanity doesn't need wilderness to survive and grow It is a very egoistic perspective (at the species level) that we can destroy species of plants and anima

• stupidbird 8y ago
  ...and it's a bit naive to overlook the fact that we've already done this. We've wiped hundreds of species off the face of the earth while coming to rely on other species that wouldn't exist without our intervention (e.g. livestock). Entire ecosystems have been destroyed simply because they don't serve us.