Invasive species, mining, logging, oil burning, AMOC collapse, 500+ nuclear plants filled with toxic waste, ocean acidification with all the phytoplankton in it, millions of discarded cars and appliances… Nature is pretty strong, but unfortunately not immortal.

I appreciate your efforts and your work but, you can’t change a creature that’s been the same way for 2.5 million years. Destruction and greed is just who we’ve always been. And ecosystems, once damaged, can’t ever recover. We’re leaving a whole lot of toxic waste and nothing else behind.

None with toxic microplastic and nuclear radiation. Neither I nor youbhave any of the cells or skills your ancestors have. Modern humans were born in cities and they’ll die with their cities.

What ages? Biosphere collapse is the end of everything.

In ashes we dwell, despair takes hold,
Nature's bounty turned to cold.
No solace found, no light, no cheer,
In this darkness, we disappear.

Sometimes things in life have no deeper meaning other than it just happened this way.

I mean it’s fairly simple. Humans had abstract thought, more skillful in making tools, were better at breeding and killing. Living by natures ball and chain wasn’t suitable anymore so they needed agriculture to gain more food. They used up all the resources and became the dominant life on the Earth.

It’s a real mental conundrum. Some say it’s considered human supremacy to think we’re different from any other species on Earth, while at the same time declare we have the unique ability to think about our impact on nature, and choose not to which requires being different from other species.

Ehh. I don’t see any other way our species could’ve gone. We humans are too divided amongst different cultures, worldviews, religions, etc. We killed off our genetic ancestors, so it’s only natural we would move on to others in our own genus. Then on to other species entirely. Cruel joke life tbf.

I like to thank the Neanderthals for having a hand to play in all this as well. Couldn’t have done it without them being graciously murdered by the other murder apes in Prada.

Yes. Religions definitely played a part in the acceleration of our overshoot.

Makes sense, lol.

That’s true. I wondered if today would’ve been better if we had gone down that route Rome later out. Just a thought…

I see what you’re saying. Sucks that the only known planet with complex life on it only has systems based on resource extraction.

Just as the Cyanobacteria or the dinosaurs, we’re just happenstance moments on a planet full of accidents.

If it’s any consolation. I don’t think the Earth or any species are meant to fail or succeed in any way. We’re all on this planet just doing whatever with no rhyme or reason. I think people assume we have a higher purpose as a species because we over-anthropomorphize the planet and its history.