Earth Survives Human Extinction

one small correction: the fate of the world isn’t in question. it’s the fate of humans that is. meaning: the planet has seen several extinction events. it will survive anything we throw at it. but humans need to start building rockets and space stations asap if they want to survive.

Yeah, earth will survive us but much of life might not.

We aren'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.The only thing we might be doing is ruining humanity's own long-term chances of survival. There's a distinct possibility that humans will undergo a mass extinction. That doesn't mean the planet is dead, though.There is bacteria that can survive in extreme temperatures (for example, in extremely hot

species die off. one day humans might. if so, it was a good run. my bet is we won’t get off this rock before we destroy it.

It's unlikely humans wipe all of themselves off the earth.

you seem to assume that we won't go extinct...

Something makes me doubt that humans will still be around at that time.

This is surely the case. Nobody really thinks humans have the ability to wipe out all life on Earth do they? We might be able to destroy ourselves, but life will probably continue at least until the Sun turns into a red giant. Life on Earth has survived far more catastrophic events than anything we can manage.

He is referring to the inevitable extinction event that will cause humans to be wiped out. The history of the planet suggests that it periodically wipes the slate nearly clean. And while there are human reasons we might get wiped out (war, warming, techno catastrophe) even being ideal stewards will eventually result in the loss of the human race. The only survival option is to not be on planet when the 'bad thing' (what ever it happens to be) happens.

We can't destroy humanity. We can, however, destroy any hope that human or human-descended life makes it off this planet.