Quote from spd:
Every species on earth exploits every resource possible without end. We are not special.
As a member of Team People I say fuck em.
I'm inclined to agree with Agent Smith on the matter.
Humans have exterminated most megafauna in the last 10,000 years, in the last few hundred deforested most available woodlands/forests, and are currently on track to exterminate themselves by both population growth and too highly specialised farming ( to productive?) methods.
We are the only species, to have made, and controlled fire, or used it to control natural environments.
We are the only species to make, or use compound tools.
If we were ants, it may not matter that we can farm and harvest zillions of creatures that weigh mere grains, and have a global population of squillions, but were not, WE are megafauna in this age, and have done slightly to good job of it, for us to exist happily into the next few centuries, certainly without massive, and monstrous population control.
No, all other species exist, and live or die depending on there effect on their ecosystem.
Humankind has broken all previous barriers, and continues to.
Hey , i like being human, its kinda fun, all this being self aware, and complex communications and society, it has a real thing going for it, much better than a grain fed slaughterhouse yearling, for sure.
Not sure what i mean by all that, except, we AIN'T getting off this planet, anytime soon.