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by mdw 843 days ago
Earths history has had many extraordinary climate changes, we already know of events like Permian–Triassic extinction.

I appreciate many people feel an obligation for humanity to minimise its effect on climate change, but the way I see it, change is constant. If we don’t cause an extinction event, earth will do it just fine without us.

The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.

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That's makes no sense.

Is the climate nicer and grass really greener on Mars?

I know Starship is a one big spaceship, but how maby people exactly do you want to evacuate from Earth?
> The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.

This is completely delusional; even if we nuked our planet with our complete arsenal as "efficiently" as possible, earth would STILL be more human-habitable than Mars.

What an idiotic philosophy.

> If we don’t cause an extinction event, earth will do it just fine without us.

But we are, clearly.