Quote Originally Posted by HalvSame
doesn't the well being of mankind depend alot on the well being of the planet?

the world would probably be a better place if mankind wasn't in it.
This is actually an interesting point. On a purely philosophical level, a strong argument can be made that extinction of the human species would be more moral than business as usual.

We seem to disregard the fact that hundreds of millions live in horrible misery, and they have children and grandchildren and so on, and most of the offspring also live in misery. Personally, I do not believe that the suffering of one person justifies the happiness of a billion people, so I have absolutely no philosophical qualms with homo sapiens going extinct.

The bright side of AGW may just be that if it truly comes to mass destruction, at least there would no longer be innumerable amounts of suffering humans since, well, we'd all be dead and unable to feel and unable to bring more children into a world of tragedy.

Not something I put into any practical means, but I'm not going to pretend like humans are a special and superior race that aren't parasitic and inhumane, and that perhaps there would be less collective suffering of life if we just weren't around