I agree with you on some of your points. Humanity seems headed to destruction simply from over population, over consumption and resource depletion. The planet can only support so many people.
Personally, I believe the planet will hit a tipping point some time in the next 200 years, where the world's population will crash by about 95% due to some of the reasons you mention, or disease, famine, or something we cannot even imagine.
But I do question: "It'd be great for the Earth to become a grand paradise it was before we came around" How do you know it was a 'Grand Paradise'? Just because it was populated by animals? Nature left to its own devices is red in tooth and claw.
If it does return to a Grand Paradise as you suggest, why will that matter? As there will be no humans to experience it as a GP anyway.
Ultimately our planet will be burned to a crisp when the Sun turns into a Red Giant in about 5 billion years or so. So whatever happens, nature / the Universe has its own way.
IIN that I'm a Antinatalist?
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I agree with you on some of your points. Humanity seems headed to destruction simply from over population, over consumption and resource depletion. The planet can only support so many people.
Personally, I believe the planet will hit a tipping point some time in the next 200 years, where the world's population will crash by about 95% due to some of the reasons you mention, or disease, famine, or something we cannot even imagine.
But I do question: "It'd be great for the Earth to become a grand paradise it was before we came around" How do you know it was a 'Grand Paradise'? Just because it was populated by animals? Nature left to its own devices is red in tooth and claw.
If it does return to a Grand Paradise as you suggest, why will that matter? As there will be no humans to experience it as a GP anyway.
Ultimately our planet will be burned to a crisp when the Sun turns into a Red Giant in about 5 billion years or so. So whatever happens, nature / the Universe has its own way.