Originally posted by twhitehead
Actually evidence has shown that system shocks tend to lead to major new life forms and stability is stiffing.
But why is 'robustness' important anyway?
[b] It would be preceded by a lowered bio and genetic diversity across the entire animal and plant kingdom and after we are gone it could be millions of years before diversity recovers and of course l ...[text shortened]... won't care. It can't. Neither will EARTH. Your caring for life is a human-centric point of view.
Did you notice I put care in quotes? Anyway, since we are both humans it is in the interest of humans not to screw up so badly we off ourselves and probably half the life forms on the planet.
Of course life will go on, maybe it takes ten million years for our level of intelligence to come around but it is not certain it will happen ever again. It could be we are just a fluke and the planet will go on till the sun burns it out with no further high intelligence, of course dolphins, elephants and the high primates are close so maybe it will evolve again in the absence of humans.
Can you imagine, say 10 million years from now some intelligent culture starts the science of archaeology and finds remains of OUR stuff. What would the conclude?
Obviously, in say a million years the pyramids will be at least covered in sand if not completely dissolved and most other structures but they should find artificial works of some kind, something obviously not natural.