The human race is playing russian roulette on a massive scale with species extinctions, habitat disruption/destruction, and climate change. With every extincti

The human race is playing russian roulette on a massive scale with species extinctions, habitat disruption/destruction, and climate change. With every extinction, we are betting that an already stressed species network will not collapse. We do not know the keystone species, outside of things like "wow, algae sure are important to the production of breathable air" or, say, "wow without honeybees, we have no food supply". There was a joke in the nuclear age that cockroaches would survive us, with the hidden notion that insect species are inherently hardier than us big mammals, but the entire "windshield" sampling where windshields simply don't get splatted by insects as much as they once were, I'd question even that. In case you're wondering, yes, a huge amount of ocean microorganisms are threatened by warming seas (warming faster than the air) and ocean acidification, and honeybees are currently stressed due to colony collapse disorder. The human population of 8 billion and its current global economy is a barreling train headed towards a cliff of unknown distance with unfathomable inertia. There is some hope of averting the cliff we know is ahead of that barreling train, but it still seems most likely that the "game theory" of current human economics is to simply drive the train into the canyon. The coronavirus was very instructive. It was comparatively to "threats to humanity" in history very low, and took relatively small measures to counter. If one thinks in terms of political science and "the elites", what is most disturbing about "the elites" of leadership and business is that they do not care outside of maintaining position, earning more magical monopoly 100 dollar bills with pictures of old men on them, and if that will continue. The human race failed spectacularly from a policy and coordination standpoint. Science worked wonders, and it is in science we basically have our only hopes. But leadership of a capitalist world is going to be populated by people obsessed with competition and "winning", and very distantly "cooperating". Even the nation states, following centuries of harsh militarism, cannot openly cooperate because weakness leads to exploitation. Man, now I'm depressed.