Exactly. The environment has no sympathy. Polar bears? Sheeeet, it's seen off mastodons and wooly mammoths. Overpopulation? Yeah, there are checks and balances for that too -- called disease, lack of food, lack of clean water supplies, infighting. It's all self-regulating in the end.
What has people up in arms is that the terms of that self-regulation may not be so beneficial to most of us.
Exactly. The environment has no sympathy. Polar bears? Sheeeet, it's seen off mastodons and wooly mammoths. Overpopulation? Yeah, there are checks and balances for that too -- called disease, lack of food, lack of clean water supplies, infighting. It's all self-regulating in the end.
What has people up in arms is that the terms of that self-regulation may not be so beneficial to most of us.
No disagreement there. People love to project humanistic values onto the planet, when in essence people fucking shit up is just another puny, two-second story in the history of natural selection and equilibrium on the planet.