@silkyballfro94:
How does earth's past have anything to do with this?
Because the problems that humans are causing are only hurting themselves in the long-run. There has been several disasters in Earth's history that puts what humans do to the ecosystem to shame. So what's the difference? With humans or without humans, life on Earth will face crisis - what humans do only speed up the process - but in the end of the results are the same. If anything, we actually have the power to save life as we know it from certain calamity's . There has been several natural disasters that have ravage the planets ecosystem, from massive volcano's, to meteoroids, one could argue what humans do is only natural. Chaos is inevitable.
The disasters and problems I listed are man-made and only apply to humans.
And only hurt humans. The Earth will still be spinning for billions of years and life will adapt, evolve, and flourish accordingly.
I am pointing out that humans have damaged the environment like ecosystems, habitats, the air we breathe, etc
So what? That stuff will happen with or without our presence. Humans are just rushing natural order, rushing the calamity, that will push life to the brink, only to get up at the count of 9, and do the dance all over again.
Animal extinction is not even a big talking point of this. It's just one out of the many on the list.
Well, why do you continue to go on about it?
Yes animals eat others for sustenance. The difference is we are at the top of the food chain and are more intelligent than any other animal.
As if it matters. The reason is different, but the conclusion is still the same.
We can't just go around hunting animals that are endangered. They're the last of their kind. You can't just turn a blind eye and say who cares animals have going extinct since forever. If you do that then you might as well say goodbye to a lot of animals. Our species is now involved and we have the power to stop it. We're not mindless animals or desperate enough to resort to killing giant pandas, tigers, or chimpanzees for survival.
Yes, it is sad, ethically, because that is the basis of our moral code. But from an objective standpoint, evolutionary - it isn't. It's only natural that animals go extinct and others move up the evolutionary ladder and takes their place. It's the reasons we Homo Sapiens are here from the start. Again, it's the natural order of the world - the universe - we live in.
We can agree to disagree if you like, because we obviously see things differently here.
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