Why would we want to? Apex predators serve a critical role in ecosystems. This is ecology 101. Elimination of capstone species destabilize the entire ecosystem and will often result in multi-system failures.
That's not very many when you start to think dispassionately about it.
The human brain is not well adapted to think in these scales. Have you ever actually calculated the ratio of casualties to survivors. There's nearly 9 billion people alive right now. Even if 500 million died in a World War, that's only a 5-6% drop in the population.
Humans got rid of all their other predators. We got very good at controlling diseases. No, you have it backwards. Those wars are one of the only things stabilizing the planet. Humans are too fucking self centered and narcissistic to see they themselves are the problem fucking like rabbits and refusing to die and not the predators killing them off.
Humans are bacteria on an auger plate which are creating toxins and using up all resources until we eventually cannibalize and kill each other as well as completely irreversibly destroy our environment.
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goatboy ago
Why would we want to? Apex predators serve a critical role in ecosystems. This is ecology 101. Elimination of capstone species destabilize the entire ecosystem and will often result in multi-system failures.
Justaddcoffee ago
World wars lead by bankers leading to the deaths of hundreds of millions of innocent people isn’t a stabilizing process.
goatboy ago
That's not very many when you start to think dispassionately about it.
The human brain is not well adapted to think in these scales. Have you ever actually calculated the ratio of casualties to survivors. There's nearly 9 billion people alive right now. Even if 500 million died in a World War, that's only a 5-6% drop in the population.
Humans got rid of all their other predators. We got very good at controlling diseases. No, you have it backwards. Those wars are one of the only things stabilizing the planet. Humans are too fucking self centered and narcissistic to see they themselves are the problem fucking like rabbits and refusing to die and not the predators killing them off.
iLuvJews ago
It's like Harrison Ford says.
"We need nature. Nature doesn't need us."
Humans are bacteria on an auger plate which are creating toxins and using up all resources until we eventually cannibalize and kill each other as well as completely irreversibly destroy our environment.