Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover
This is a disaster, and we must be deeply ashamed as species for it, but I think in many of us there is some consolation in the implicit thinking &quot;ok, we are destroying our planet life, but there are other planets and surely there are many biodiversity pockets out there in the Universe&quot;. Or.. &quot;ok, maybe we are transforming the Earth to a naked rock, but let&#x27;s wait a couple of billion years and surely there will be another rich ecosystem as the one who made us&quot;.<p>Now consider the following: we don&#x27;t really know if that is true. We can be materialists, atheists, and post-copernicus evolutionists, but we don&#x27;t have the confirmation there is life in other planet. Also, we are not really sure if the process can be repeated, we can guess it can be, but we don&#x27;t have the confirmation.<p>So maybe we are extinguishing all the biodiversity emerged through eons of evolution on the only planet in the entire Universe with life on it. Just imagine that as a possibility, because life in other planets&#x2F;future is only a theoretical idea, not a known fact. We simply don&#x27;t know, maybe we are burning the only chance for life and his richness in all the eternity. In any case, we need to change.