It does, however, force us to qualitatively analyze what we're doing. The problem is that can be a decades or centuries long endeavor. So in the meantime, stri

It does, however, force us to qualitatively analyze what we're doing. The problem is that can be a decades or centuries long endeavor. So in the meantime, striving for a pre-human or early-human stable state is often beneficial for us, even if it isn't optimal & even if we can't draw the cost-benefit table yet.