>It is the human brain and human potential. No. Just no. The most valuable thing is the ecosystem, of which we are just one small, temporary, and insignificant

>It is the human brain and human potential. No. Just no. The most valuable thing is the ecosystem, of which we are just one small, temporary, and insignificant part. It’s exactly this kind of hubris and overconfidence that is leading us to the next extinction event and to our own doom. Humans may be good at solving short term problems, but one of the biggest limits on our potential is to collectively act to avert long term threats. Every civilization from the Egyptians to the Romans thought they had it all figured out in their prime. The Egyptians literally moved mountains, and they are gone. If we wanted to today, we probably couldn’t rebuild the great pyramid, even with modern machinery. It would be too expensive! Our technologies have always created more problems than they have alleviated even if you restrict the cost benefit only to the human sphere. The record only becomes worse when you factor in the rest of the world.