We can take prevantative measures, to protect us from droughts, asteroids, quakes, famines, and whatever else nature throws at us. We can protect ourselves, we can find ways to adapt and recover, and we can and will continue to thrive.

We cannot force the climate to stay as it is without learning to change it ourselves. We cannot prevent asteroids, protect ourselves as a species, without going to another planet and colonizing it, creating a new ecosystem from the ground up. We cannot prevent earthquakes, famines, and whatever else nature may throw at us without taking control of the things that cause them.

Can we endure them? Yes. However, doing so sentences thousands of people to death.

Right now though, we still act like children. Petulant, short sighted children. We have a long way to go.

If humanity never stops progressing, this statement will never stop being true.

it's not going to happen if we all just shrug our shoulders and say "Welp. I guess that's just the way it is."

That is true. I was speaking against the idea that humanity today is somehow in the wrong, or somehow immoral, somehow negative. The way society is today, all the issues we face, are signs of the times, signs of our abilities. We should always seek to expand and grow those abilities, to inform those who are wrong.

However, their existence is not counter to the fact that humanity can and will grow to the point that it controls the planet from the ground up. We can and will become mature enough as a species to do so.

Remember your example about slavery? Huh? Yeah? Right? That's us seeing value in changing our behaviors.

The thing that took the bloodiest civil war in history to end? The thing whose effects still face us today? The thing whose practice was extended far beyond the point it was needed, to the point it was actively harming the societies it was part of?

We likely won't see the big push against global warming until we are in the same, or a similar situation, where the effects of it are clearly effecting us.

That doesn't mean that biodiversity is without value.

If it has value, that value will be extracted. If the costs are higher than the value, it will not be.

It's like a sapling though. Those behaviors have to start out on a small scale and grow and develop over time before it can be applied on a grander scale.

What is this supposed to mean?