> Lowering our standard to sub-Saharan Africa is a shortcut to extinction.
> Living in harmony with nature is not, and never was, sustainable
> need is a push towards… more resource use
> We are created to do interesting things, hence the brains
Nothing above is true. Humans are exactly like cancer cells on Earth and may be universe is we go everywhere. Grow at any cost and kill the host finally. If we are capable of doing good ethical things does not matter because we never did that and will not. Uncomfortable but truth.
It's all every species are though. Consume the resource, survive yourself. There's a natural way of balancing the amount of consumers if resources aren't enough. Wolves population will die out to a smaller number if there's not enough food even after moving places. We could be limited by that, or we could step over it using science. After all wild cats don't think if it's ethical to eat prey. Or understand the concept of ethics. But we do.
What saves Earth for now is the fact that we can't move away easily. Even with all the money and desire we don't have an independent settlement outside of the planet. There's lot of things required before we are able to, and then even more before moving to Mars, for example, is as easy as moving between Europe and Americas. Then the Earth will be doomed. Who would care about not only insects, but the fate of the planet, when we could just move residents somewhere else. Like we do now on a smaller scale, and always did.
> Living in harmony with nature is not, and never was, sustainable
> need is a push towards… more resource use
> We are created to do interesting things, hence the brains
Nothing above is true. Humans are exactly like cancer cells on Earth and may be universe is we go everywhere. Grow at any cost and kill the host finally. If we are capable of doing good ethical things does not matter because we never did that and will not. Uncomfortable but truth.