Posted by:
schrodingerscat
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Date: September 17, 2021 11:53AM
Elder Berry Wrote:
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> schrodingerscat Wrote:
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> > be the first species to self destruct.
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> I don't think we could be the first.
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https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/has-an-animal-
> ever-evolved-itself-into-extinction/
They went extinct because we wiped out their sole source of food.
They didn’t blow themselves off of the face of the earth, like we have the widespread, and spreading, potential to do.
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> We're the only species that I know of which could
> consciously choose extinction for the good of all
> other life on earth.
If all the other species had a vote, they’d probably vote us off the planet. They’d fare a lot better w/o us. We wouldn’t last long w/o bees, earthworms or Phages.
> But I also doubt an agreement to do it could be
> reached with billion upon billions of people.
The survival instinct is powerful, which might account for why we have not blown ourselves up in the past 100yrs since we did the math and figured out e=mc^2