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why worry that interstellar drive by visits might be real? also, might you presume such possibilities are rarely good for us because of implicit recognition ho

• asdff 4y ago
  How about how bad other species are to other species? Displacement. Hunting to extermination. Dramatic changes in the environment leading to extinctions. Parasitic relationships. All these things that we blame ourselves for are really pretty natural things in terms of life. There is no mantle held by any species to be a conservationist. The name of the game is to extract as much available resources as your genotype allows you to extract from the environment. To succeed at the expense of other life, to subsist off of it. In terms of climate change, us humans have nothing on cyanobacteria, who nearly ended life on earth entirely in the distant past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event