To be fine with the human race becoming extinct

[Designless]

I mean ideally not while I'm around to see it but I assume it will happen eventually and I don't care at all.

I ask this became some people do seem to care and say things Iike "if we don't have more children our species will come to an end!"

...ok and?

We will never colonise Mars. Its a cool thought but long term habitation on mars is not possible.

The practicalities of living on a planet with low gravity, thin to nonexistent atmosphere and lack of a magnetic field to protect from solar winds and comic radiation make it impossible to live there safely for more than 4 years.

Can't happen soon enough for me.

Also agree. We need to accept and better facilitate people dying.

As for the students who committed the atrocity against a defenceless animal as posted above, I'd bring back the death penalty for them. Kill them in the same way. If they need someone to do, I'll volunteer. Not many people I'd bring the death penalty back for but there's two right there.

You don't care about an event in the future that you won't even know about? I mean, ok?

For everyone wishing for the end of humanity so that nature can flourish: what is the point of a beautiful natural world existing if no intelligent beings are there to appreciate it? Surely the appreciation of beauty is the goal.

It's like seeing an imperfection in a great piece of art and therefore locking it in a box where nobody is every allowed to look at it. You might as well have destroyed the artwork.

It is going to happen. Humans will become extinct. We just don't know when that will happen.

It's interesting to see people talking about descendants in hundreds of years time who they will never know. Do you care so much about the suffering of your ancestors hundreds of years ago?

You have no way of knowing what intelligent beings might have evolved in 500,000 or a million years.

I am quite charmed with PP idea about the future world being run by intelligent dolphins 😍

For everyone wishing for the end of humanity so that nature can flourish: what is the point of a beautiful natural world existing if no intelligent beings are there to appreciate it? Surely the appreciation of beauty is the goal.

The arrogance of the human race will be its downfall.

Humans have made the world ugly and they have harmed it. No other living creature on earth does that.

Without humans another intelligent lifeform would evolve.

I agree but I definitely would not want to be part of the last cohort unless we just vanished in a big bang.

I think the bigger concern people need to think about prior to species extinction is civilisation extinction.

We are flying too close to the sun with our resource-gobbling ways and constant race to go bigger and better. I'm sure the Ancient Egyptians, Indus, Mayans, Khmer Empire etc all thought they were unstoppable too...

It's nigh impossible to breathe these days without it costing money. Everything is monetised and technologised. Where will it end? The gap between the poor and the rich is ever growing. We are creating our own destruction. In my opinion, humans will survive, but we will burn out the resources and have to start again.

Read 3 Body Problem

we are bugs

”What’s the point unless we superior beings can appreciate it” is a strange take.

I've started to see research and articles about Japan depopulation areas and wildlife - and so far its seems increase or decrease wildlife diversity and well being is down.

It was assumed by many it would be like Chernobyl where eveyone left in short time a large connected block of land and nature recovered and changed very rapidly.

It looks like depopulation will need careful managing and not just the assumption less people is better - I think many what are considered natural environments aren't they've been managed by people so long people are needed to maintain the status quo.

Given enough time life will find a way - even if that's single cell organisim round hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean.

Some dinosaurs evolved into modern day birds - they died out by evolving into something else. Our technolgy helps us avoid some evolutionary pressures but not all.

https://www.yourgenome.org/theme/are-humans-still-evolving/

Well yes? 100 years in the future means your children or grandchildren being killed, it’s not exactly a slow population deceleration.

I think the bigger concern people need to think about prior to species extinction is civilisation extinction.

I agree that's a more pressing and likely event especially as many previous civilizations did fall when climates shifted.

Animals will and do appreciate it, well whatever is left after our mess.

I mean famine and war (and disease and slavery and sexual and physical abuse) have been unifying human experiences for most of our history. Extinction would mean an end to all that.

Extinction is a natural process. Some species have survived millions of years, so you never know

It’s taken millions of years and several mass extinctions to get from a single celled organism to today.
Try to imagine the changes in a few more million years.

Telemicus Let us take flowers as an example. They are not beautiful for our benefit. They exist to attract pollinators and continue the survival of their species.

Whether or not humans appreciate them is irrelevant. Some do, and some like the vandals who tore out plants from flower beds in our town clearly do not.

I had cancer earlier in my life and it made me appreciate life and I don’t wish death on our species, I find it nihilistic.
I don’t want my children’s children to die.

Who or what do you think saw any of the beauty before we came along and destroyed half of it? Literally millions of years where animals, flora and fauna existed perfectly happily without us to have to 'look' at it. It does feel odd for it not to be 'seen' though I grant you but that's only through our eyes not the planets, it's such strange view that it's all only here for us humans to appreciate and not in its own right.

I can't wait