RetiredUSNChief
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The only thing I really dislike about the possible elimination of an entire species is the loss it poses relative to us.
Once a species is gone, it's only ever going to be accessible to us by human historical records and bones/fossil records. That's it. There will be no more (insert species) for humans to actually encounter and interact with in any other way.
On a planetary scale, involving geological time frames, Mother Nature does not care one wit about any species surviving or not. Entire species disappear in the blink of her eye, sometimes on an incredibly massive scale. And yet, a short eye-blink or two later for her, more species evolve and fill every single available niche, and quite often to the detriment of species already occupying those niches.
Because that's what life does.
And mankind itself is nothing more than one of those untold billions and billions of species that have evolved on this planet, and we're only one single species out of the fraction of one percent of those billions that have evolved and currently exist today after more than 3.5 billion years.
Our time, too, will come...one way or another.
Once a species is gone, it's only ever going to be accessible to us by human historical records and bones/fossil records. That's it. There will be no more (insert species) for humans to actually encounter and interact with in any other way.
On a planetary scale, involving geological time frames, Mother Nature does not care one wit about any species surviving or not. Entire species disappear in the blink of her eye, sometimes on an incredibly massive scale. And yet, a short eye-blink or two later for her, more species evolve and fill every single available niche, and quite often to the detriment of species already occupying those niches.
Because that's what life does.
And mankind itself is nothing more than one of those untold billions and billions of species that have evolved on this planet, and we're only one single species out of the fraction of one percent of those billions that have evolved and currently exist today after more than 3.5 billion years.
Our time, too, will come...one way or another.
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