It's crazy to think, if human civilization were to shut down the earth would fairly rapidly become much better off. Other species would flourish again, plants would slowly take over our cities. There'd be less bickering. Hm.
“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
The current push of environmentalism is sticking because it is clear that the current level of comfort is unsustainable on our current path. Our habitat is facing an existential crisis. I don’t think its noble to ignore the well-being of other lifeforms, but I think it is inaccurate to say that we are pushing environmentalism for their benefit.
Until the sun turned into a red giant, and all life on earth, potentially in the universe, was extinguished forever. Which is kinda sad for all those species and the universe overall.
Indeed. Before that happens there is also the supervolcano in Oregon and probably dozens of huge rocks on the scale similar to what happened 65m years ago. But let’s not be pessimistic! Think of the children.
― Douglas Adams