We don't.

To be fair, most of them would have gone extinct anyway. And besides, we are a part of nature anyway, so why should we feel bad, or even responsible, of the extinctions that took place before we gained an awareness of our potential power to influence other lifeforms, as well as an inherent sense of morality towards their preservation?

Also, we are deliberately making species such as smallpox, tuberculosis and other diseases extinct, and noone will condemn that line of thinking.

It's all gonna end soon.

We're reaching the singularity at a very fast pace. And, unless we go hardcore sustainable, the God we're building now, which is called Artificial Intelligence, will wipe us out.

So don't worry. Everything is under perfect control. This was meant to happen from the very beginning..

We are fairly morally broken as a species. I think this is worth while, but what we do to each other is even worse.

By all means you're welcome to leave.

you realise of course that your computer is contributing to global warming right? your game consoles? your car?
if you care so much why not sell those things off?

yes i am but i'm not stating that humans are some blight to the universe because of their activities while partaking in those activities

be the change you want to see in the world, if you care for the environment then donate all your unnecessary shit to environmental causes

Well said.

The only thing I will add tot his is people saying who cares we are above the food change. Have a look at some docos on how the planet actually works. All the bugs people hate have a purpose on this planet. Nature may take care of them in the long run but something will replace them. We do not have to go out of our way to actively do it lol.

I'm not about to advocate for the killing off of endangered species or hunting just for the sport of it, but at the same time - I feel like some people look at this in the wrong way. Animals killing off other animals is just nature - it's the weird irony of life. And we're just as much a part of that system as any other animal that slaughters their prey. We just do it on more of a mass and deadly scale. But there are many varieties of life that would (and do) kill humans when given the chance.

I feel like in some ways this ideal that "humans are evil/destructive" and need to "pull back" seems to ignore the fact that we're completely integrated in this whole ecosystem of competition between species for survival. We're animals ourselves at the end of the day.

No u.