I'm gobsmacked. Let's take what I consider the most indisputable claim: > Humans are also exceptional in that they could extinguish themselves, either by choic

I'm gobsmacked. Let's take what I consider the most indisputable claim: > Humans are also exceptional in that they could extinguish themselves, either by choice on their own folly. Could you imagine ants finding a method to annihilate themselves? I don't claim that animals are unintelligent, but we are unique in our ability to create technology to achieve almost any goal, no matter goal's 'sapience'. > If tomorrow all ants disappear then most land-oriented ecosystems would just collapse. I don't dispute this, but it's completely orthogonal to my claim. Humans have disrupted the biosphere in a manner that is unprecedented since when meteor strikes and seismic events were still shaping earth