Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says
If the ecosystems become to much inbalance, the human specie and a few others will be in peril, planet earth will continue its merry-go trip
in the universe, and some other specie will became the predominant one (I'm betting some insect one, as scientists predict every mamal over
3 pounds will become instinct).
Why bother ?
"But what good is that when virtue itself is quickly becoming a term of derision? And not just on the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal
or on the lips of the vice president, who famously dismissed energy conservation as a “sign of personal virtue.” No, even in the pages of The
New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet “virtuous,” when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be
used only ironically. Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue — a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue
— became a mark of liberal softheadedness? How peculiar, that doing the right thing by the environment — buying the hybrid, eating like a
locavore — should now set you up for the Ed Begley Jr. treatment."
"For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problem of how we’re living our lives suggests we’re not really serious about changing
— something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and
grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking — passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on
specialists — that helped get us into this mess in the first place. It’s hard to believe that the same sort of thinking could now get us out of it."