Don't worry, this has happened before. As a result, a more severe strain of homo sapiens will evolve and become the common variant
We are probably just Gaia's way to put the fossilized carbon back into circulation. Smart enough to understand that this kills us, but not smart enough to prevent us from doing it.
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If true, we should thank the mythical Gaia. But we should be more thankful you can think and express that thought. For it demonstrates we are smart enough to recognise problems. And we are smart enough to solve them.
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If intelligence is not the result of a very particular brain architecture, but evolves naturally in response to the pressure to solve control problems, then most complex ecosystems will evolve general intelligence over a long enough time scale. Perhaps Lovelock was right!
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