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The number of dimensions we have improved life for humans in an environment which have always been hostile not only to humans but to the 99.9999% of all species
by ThomPete 5y ago
The number of dimensions we have improved life for humans in an environment which have always been hostile not only to humans but to the 99.9999% of all species ever existed it wiped out is quite a lot more staggering.
Nature didn't give us a safe and friendly environment we made unsafe, it gave us a hostile and dangerous environment we have made safe by using technology to impact the planet to better suit us.
All impacts have externalities but I take those any day over just waiting for some catastrophe to happen whether meteors, super vulcanos or any other real threat that is out there lurking.
Technology is the sole reason we are 8 billion people on this planet and still are most better fed than 2 billion people were 150 years ago.
Living on this planet IS life in space and we are luckily constantly improving our ability to cope.
All solutions create new problems but these problems are better problems to have.
- jacquesm 5y agoIn the short term, sure. But what if this is a local maximum which accidentally cut off all viable future branches? A bit of caution when making these irreversible decisions would go a long way. Wiping out the rest of the planet to give us a safe habitat may have been a giant mistake, monocultures tend to end bad.
- ThomPete 5y agowe are not wiping out the rest of the planet, we are manipulating it into better serving us through thd use of technology. We are potentially able to deal with ex. astroid impact which no other species is able to, in my book that counts for way more.