We’re Eating This Planet to Death

The general HN narrative is that, &quot;yes, there are issues. we should fix them&quot;. So, I would love to hear some concrete examples of what is being done to reverse this.<p>For example, the deforestation efforts in Amazon are putting tribes at risk every single day. Not to mention the loss of animals, plants and other wildlife. Is there anyone here on HN that has given actual thought to how this could be resolved?<p>And I am not talking about hoola hooping the government either. Clearly that is not an approach that is ever going to work.

We aren&#x27;t eating the planet to death. The planet has survived asteroids and all sorts of things, including the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and most of the life on earth.<p>The only thing we might be doing is ruining humanity&#x27;s own long-term chances of survival. There&#x27;s a distinct possibility that humans will undergo a mass extinction. That doesn&#x27;t mean the planet is dead, though.<p>There is bacteria that can survive in extreme temperatures (for example, in extremely hot underwater volcanic plumes).<p>Worst case scenario, humans go extinct and some other life-form ends up evolving. You could be looking at some kind of sentient jellyfish taking over the planet in a billion years or whatever.