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Netyaroze on 31 March 2013
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curl-6 said:
Netyaroze said:
curl-6 said:

Our impact on the environment is far from negigible. Thousands upon thousands of species are extinct as a direct result of human activity, not natural causes. People die eventually too, doesn't mean we should murder them cos they're going to die anyway.

Ultimately, life on earth would benefit from our elimination.


I am not seeing what the benefit would be. Species always die. Humans are the only chance animals have to survive long term. Without Humanity life is doomed no matter what. With us life has atleast a theoretical chance to survive.

The benefit to them would be that thousands of species that we'll destroy in the next few centuries could survive. All lifeforms are doomed eventually, we can't save them or ourselves in the end. 

 

So this is to save the species we will kill in the future before they inevitably get killed by nature. I see how this would benefit them but not life in general. 

 

In 500 Million years its definetly lights out for life on this planet. The Sun gets gradually hotter, over time a natural runaway greenhouse effect will transform Earth to Venus. 

While Humans will also die sooner or later. Life could survive way longer than Earth existed up until now. Blocking the Sunlight will prolong the time the biosphere has left substantially, not to mention deflecting Asteroids/Meteorites or preserving DNA to repopulate after mayor catastrophes.

Pulling earth away from Sun over Millenia is doable too. 

Recreating biospheres on former dead rocks too. 

Even if Humans don't get to the point its the only possible way for life in the solarsystem to survive. We have Multicellular life for 500 Millionyears I think its worth to not kill 7 Billion Humans in order to save several Billion animals for a couple of Million years before the next big rock inevitably hits.

I believe my life and the life of my family is more worth than the life of animals. Atleast for me, so I really don't think killing all humans for some animals I don't even know is worth it. And that its better for life in general I highly doubt that. All that would happen is instead of 1000 Billion Humans that get born its 1000 Billion Sharks, Whales, Penguins, Crocodiles, Apes, Rhinos, Elephants all those Species lived for ages, long before us. Where is the fairness in them getting to live even longer just because ? And they atleast get the chance to have their DNA preserved and maybe to be repopulated again somewhere if they infact die.