Humans are different from other animals in that they adapt their environment to their optimal living conditions, instead of adapting themselves to their environment.
How is pollution, deforestation, increased ocean acidity and reduced biodiversity optimal conditions? maybe the consequences still seem low now but as these increase in the future you will better see the proportion of the disaster but then it will be too late.
I suspect it is a bad thing because it turns out we were pretty bad at it and we're going to experience a number of non-optimal situations as a consequence.
I personally think we should not talk about Anthropocene, but rather of an "anthropic crisis" or "Holocene crisis", like other crises in paleontology (oxygen crisis, messinian crisis...)
We just have too little visibility to consider how the current state of the world will perdure in the long term. It can only be a transition phase, an event, not a period.
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We even protect wild animals because we want to see the environment where animals thrive for our own pleasure.
We just have too little visibility to consider how the current state of the world will perdure in the long term. It can only be a transition phase, an event, not a period.