Personally this type of thinking smacks of anthropomorphism to me. Plants and animals couldn't care less whether their descendants thousands or millions of year

Personally this type of thinking smacks of anthropomorphism to me. Plants and animals couldn't care less whether their descendants thousands or millions of years from now are wiped out. I don't object to NASA doing the research because I'd like to see humans preserved, but it has no special moral value, it's just us meddling with the fate of the biosphere for our own purposes, like we always do.