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by throwanem 2213 days ago
Sorry, no, that's not how it works. We have to live with the consequences of our mistakes, as a species just as individuals.

The happy news is that we're not nearly so powerful, as a species, as we fantasize ourselves to be. No more than a million or so years after we're gone, you'd never be able to tell by looking that we were here at all.