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retiredshared5 wrote

This ignores the reality that if we go extinct, so will most everything else on Earth because it all depends on us to sustain it. If we aren't here to keep Tigers, Rhinos, et al from going extinct, all that will survive will be the cockroaches.

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asg101 wrote

Begs the question of how so many species seemed to have been doing just fine before humans showed up. Look at the megafauna extinctions in the Americas and Australia after the arrival of humans for very clear examples of how flawed your premise is.

Now, the idea that humans will be taking many other species down with them when the mechanism resulting in human extinction plays out is probably a valid assumption, but claiming that those other species would survive if humans were still around to "help" them is not.

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retiredshared5 wrote

We can't undo the past but we also can't stop the chain of events we set into motion from unfolding if we're not here to stop them.

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asg101 wrote (edited )

Let me help you with that:

"... we also can't stop the chain of events we set into motion from unfolding i̶f̶ ̶w̶e̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶.̶"

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