I'll press your buttons here by positing that if "we" (humankind) are too dumb to self-regulate our own childbirth output, too dim to recognize that we are polluting ourselves and neighbors out of sustainable existence, we are, in fact, a ridiculous parasite on this Earth and that the planet on which we live will simply slough us off—as it well should—and will bounce back without evidence of we even being here, come two or three thousand years. Your thoughts (in as much detail as you wish)?I would recommend reading my "the next 50 years" piece here. Basically I think that
climate change, which in this case genuinely is caused mostly by humanity,
is just one part of the environmental problem. Overfishing, toxification of
the seas, pesticide use, weedkillers, prescription drugs in water,
fracking, continued air pollution, toxicity in food, destruction of animal
habitat, attrition on bee colonies—all this is converging. And we'll be
facing the consequences for several hundred years.