tenticularozric t1_it9l2vl wrote on October 21, 2022 at 11:00 PM

Reply to comment by Phenotyx in The Webb Space Telescope Sees a Solar System's Beginning by footinch

If we don’t get off this planet, eventually a natural force will destroy the planet and then it won’t have made a different how many animals we drove to extinction or how many greenhouse gases we emitted into the atmosphere.

But if we get off this planet and find a way to make other planets habitable for ourselves and other animals, it will have all been worth it right?

Phenotyx t1_it9n7a3 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 11:16 PM

If we extend that logic you’d eventually just say well none of it matters because eventually the universe will get to a point where no life can be sustained so what does any of it matter?

So no I don’t really like that point of view. Society has existed for 10000 years that’s not even 1/1000th of 1% of the time the earth has been around I don’t think its ok to justify mass extinction of animals because we MAY or may not “find a way to make other planets habitable”… let’s worry about saving our own planet first ffs