we have the power to make the world what we want it to be and we should use that power.
Tell us why you are better off because the dodo and the passenger pigeon are extinct. Actually on second thought, dont.
Tell us why it makes you worse off. Except you can't. As usual.
Even though permanent global species loss is a more dramatic phenomenon than regional changes in species composition, even minor changes from a healthy stable state can have dramatic influence on the food web and the food chain insofar as reductions in only one species can adversely affect the entire chain (coextinction), leading to an overall reduction in biodiversity, possible alternative stable states of an ecosystem notwithstanding. Ecological effects of biodiversity are usually counteracted by its loss. Reduced biodiversity in particular leads to reduced ecosystem services and eventually poses an immediate danger for food security, also for humankind.[1]
In your own words, twat. This is about you personally as per your own play.
While I've already mentioned that I don't
personally like a potential loss of biodiversity, it's not necessarily a bad thing. It could provide humans with new challenges that could allow us to achieve new highs that we wouldn't have seen otherwise by tackling those.
Just to name one spin on how the loss of biodiversity could be a good, rather than a bad thing.
Eden's garden type situations and decadence have lead to the fall of many civilizations, and mediocrity, laziness and lack of willpower, which all
could be contributing to the increase in depression rates, have lead to the fall of previous civilizations.
In history it has always been great pain that created great things. This could be a natural phenomenon, just like the cycle of Bitcorns going up and down, just like climate going from hot to cold, hardship and prosperity could also be coming in periods.
Of course, if that was indeed the case, then there is nothing that should stop us from realizing the impeding hardship sooner and combating it before it takes place. But if we want to effectively do so we need to stop pretending as if there were right and wrong paths. There are goals and ways to achieve them, and not everybody will agree on the solution, never mind the goal.