durezzz

durezzz t1_irpqpep wrote

It's about energy usage, not greed.

Intelligent life as we know it wants to reproduce, expand its territory and live comfortably.

We got to where we are by learning about better ways to do so, which led to new forms of energy usage.

It doesn't matter if there are cavemen living on another planet, we won't be able tell that they're there unless we go there, so there's no point in looking for anything unless we can detect it right now. We can't detect cavemen. We can detect pollutants.

It's not greedy for intelligent life to improve its technological capabilities and energy consumption techniques.....that's just what it does.

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