A huge global recession would do much more to save the planet than offing humans willy nilly. Most of the stuff we produce has a useful life span of a few years

A huge global recession would do much more to save the planet than offing humans willy nilly. Most of the stuff we produce has a useful life span of a few years or months even. And whole industries depend on the consumption and consumerism, the production of intermediate goods, the maintance and servicing industry for ever complicated systems, all these companies consume fossil fuels for energy and use up resources from all around the world, transportation of which also consumes a lot of fossil fuels. Before the industrialisation in places where humans settled biodiversity usually went up. We were benefactors to this planet once and we can be it again. It just depends on the rate at which we deplete this planets resources. Now the question is do we want to continue with this life style and go for the stars and suck this planet dry, or do we want to become guardians of the most suitable spaceship habitat withing the next few dozen or hundred lightyears? I'd rather chill on this wonderful and beautiful planet, work less because worldwide consumption went down to a reasonable level and use the free time to explore, learn and meet people.