Okay.  I'm not going to argue that humans are perfect.  We clearly are not.  But, I hold to my claim that were better off now than at any other time in human history.  

As to the premise that humans need to take care of every species on earth, I'd just have to say that I disagree.  We need to take care of ourselves, and we only need to care about other species to the extent that their survival significantly impacts our own.  And, it appears that, in most cases, those two things are not related to a large enough degree to matter.  

I have yet to see any impact that jeopardizes our survival on this planet. Humans are smart and omnivores. When all animals go extinct we will long be at a point where we do not depend on them anymore. That's also completely ignoring how amazing humans are at domestication and breeding. If we need an animal for survival you can be sure that we will keep them alive.

So 2 different things indeed. Because if you shat in your pants 12 times a day and now you do it 3, that's still not taking care of yourself

Well, I do not agree that we (humans) aren't "taking care of" ourselves.  I think we're taking great care of ourselves, as evidenced by the fact that life has continually gotten better (on average), since the beginning of human history.  We could always do better.  But, that's not the same as doing poorly.  

The ongoing growth in human population and resource consumption is changing the planet in fundamental ways. One consequence of this growth is the loss of biodiversity, which is typically estimated either by the net movement of species towards higher categories of extinction risk or as the rate at which species are actually going extinct. By either measure, biodiversity loss is on the rise. As species disappear we lose both known and unknown benefits they provide

Apart from the loss of richness to the human experience if ecologies are lost, there much we don't understand about the complex web of life and how it will ultimately affect us, for our own survival it is logical to maintain as much of the Worlds biodiversity as we can 

Just because it has been true for a short time doesn't mean it will stay true, antibiotics once readily available, could now be unusable over the next decades leaving Humans again vulnerable to simple infections our ancestors died from, all this gain and loss happening in roughly 100 years, a drop in time, our food crops are constantly injected with wild genes to improve survivability of those crops, if we have no more wild varieties our very food supply is at risk over coming 100 years, taking even bees for granted has been a huge threat, bees need a healthy wild landscape to thrive, which includes many species not directly seen as beneficial to us       

I'm saying you're welcome to leave in the NICEST WAY I can put it on VGChartz. I understand there's plenty of problems in our ecosystem and world but I cant stand self hating deluded people like you. You're threads say a lot about you. I mean this when I say you need to talk to someone. Youre lucky this site is VERY tolerable. 

The overpopulation myth is annoying though. It's not that we are overpopulated, it's just places with large populations can't properly handle themselves and now when places like China and India are starting to do that, it's much better. We need way more people to try;y be overpopulated. Scientists worried about overpopulation in the 70s and 80s but new studies show the faults lie elsewhere when we used to blame overpopulation for those

Progress has been true forever, not for a short time.  

Antibiotics....well, there is certainly some risk there, but that's all it is - risk.  There is no certainty that were fucked, or even close to it.  

Crops - I don't even know what you're talking about.  Crop yields, resistance to drought, resistance to pests, and just about everything else having to do with the food supply is moving in a positive direction.

Bees - there simply isn't a problem.  Bee populations are experiencing massive growth.  There was an 18 month scare, which appears to have been significantly overblown.  

It sure is annoying.  The world is not even remotely close to having too many people.  If the growth rate continues as it has, maybe that discussion will make sense in a few thousand years.  

For those of you that haven't seen it, check out this article, explaining that the entire human race can fit inside Tunisia, New Zealand, or even a small US state.  https://www.fastcompany.com/3016331/think-the-world-is-crowded-you-could-fit-the-entire-human-race-in-new-zealand