Confirmed by science: our species is doomed.

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26. I understand what you're saying,

I think...

In my mind, humans...especially in light of the terrible things we're doing to our planet now...could disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow and the place would get along just fine without us.

In some ways, it might even be better off


And while it's probably true that many other species could disappear and there wouldn't be a severe impact, I would say there are few species besides our own where their disappearance could be said to be a beneficial thing.


In the days when we, as a species, lived off the land just like all the other animals, things were fine, from an ecological standpoint.

Then we became industrialized and started raping and plundering our own planet...ruining the land and atmosphere, etc.

So unless we can stop doing that while still enjoying a decent standard of living, we're nothing more than a festering wound on the planet.