Don't worry, this has happened before. As a result, a more severe strain of homo sapiens will evolve and become the common variant
No, that would be very short-sighted! I suspect that many species have evolved mechanisms that prevent them from overgrazing their food chain. Many ecosystems are probably shepherded by their apex predators.
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You will find that most premodern cultures have traditions that ask for planning seven generations into the future or so. Rapid technological process has ended this. Our bumbling search for spirituality is the phantom limb we formed after we amputated longtermist culture.
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Perhaps this is something we will redisover. The discovery of new knowledge always changes things though. And the discovery of new knowledge is inherently unpredictable.
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I know of species (I'm think about kangaroos) who have a breeding response to environmental conditions that works in their favour and are also fooled by other conditions that leads to genocide. I guess there are examples covering all possibilities.
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