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By this logic humans could nuke the entire planet and that would still be “part of nature”. I think it tends to be easier for people on HN to get caught in thi

• blackhaz 3y ago
  Exactly. Humans have accelerated the processes led by evolution. It is naive to assume the biosphere can keep up. The nature is likely to unable to adjust at that pace, unless we are talking about drastic corrective measures - like wiping out most of life. This accelerated development works for producing high-tech stuff, but what we do with it? We throw it out. You can't throw Earth 1 out and go to Earth 2, like an iPhone. There's just no such option.
  • autoexec 3y ago
    This is why people say billionaires have become so interested in space and luxury bunkers recently. They'll need places to go after they throw out Earth 1. If they can't find Earth 2 in time, they'll retreat to their isolated subterranean compounds and watch in comfort while the surface burns and the rest of us eat each other for survival. I can't say how accurate that theory is, but I know that one way or another, we're going to need an Earth 2 if the species is going to survive so I'm glad we've got people funding space exploration. NASA sure as hell isn't getting the budget to do it.
• kjkjadksj 3y ago
  On one hand an asteroid strike isn’t much different than that. Global warming too isn’t so different than other periods of earths history where even other organisms generated enough change to see some of the largest extinctions in history.