The elephant in the room is that there are just far too many of the problem species on the planet.
That species exponential population increase became long term unsustainable many centuries ago. The process is accelerating, and an opportunity for an effective natural cull has just been missed...
Yeah, the planet will be OK ...
You're mistaken. It's not possible to extrapolate current trends so far into the future.
Population *growth* is declining in many countries, even in Africa, with some latency. In a few decades from now, it won't be nearly what it is now, that's almost a guarantee.
And yes, the planet will be OK. It has survived much worse. The question is about us, not about the planet. Are we going to be OK in a few centuries from now? I have no clue.
But is the planet going to be OK? That's for sure. The planet doesn't care about our shit.
We keep saying "the planet" as if to avoid explicitely saying that all we care about is actually us, and it hasn't changed, it's just gotten much worse. We only care about our fricking destiny.
Let's leave "the planet" alone and start being honest. It has never been about anything else than us, and is unlikely to ever be about anything else until it's too late for us.
Claming we care and are going to save "the planet" is just bullshit. We are just trying to save ourselves, and not all of us either.
