pezar wrote:
ThetaIn3D wrote:
Humanaut wrote:
The environmentalists should be thrilled too.
Wrong. Speaking as one, the world's poorer people on the world's least-developed inhabited continent did nothing to deserve this, and Africans as a whole contribute very little to global warming. Their per-capita emissions are a tiny fraction of everyone else's.
I know that the more radical environmentalists view every death of a human as a good thing, since they believe that the world has too many people in general and billions need to die for "balance". They really don't care if it's Africa or America, just as long as billions of people go away. Not all enviros are like that, but the far out radical ones certainly are.
Well, you are right about that. There is such a thing as the Voluntary Human Extinction movement.
I'm definitely not one of them, though, and I sharply disagree that humans should become extinct. I'm in it for mutual hope for humans and for the rest of life on earth (which we are dependent upon).
If humans should die and go away completely, what we're doing now is adequate to take care of that. Life would rebound after we were gone. We could just keep doing what we're doing, and die comfortably.
My position is, even with as much struggle and suffering as humans go through (and will probably continue to go through), we still need and deserve hope and a future. We need to learn to live more sustainably, but there's no reason to say we shouldn't live. We just need to keep working on all our problems, and that makes life interesting anyways.