That&#x27;s silly though. It&#x27;s like saying, well, even if we nuke the earth and kill all humans that live on it, the radiation will eventually disperse and something new will evolve. Yes, that&#x27;s fundamentally true on a birds-eye level, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s a sane or moral choice. If we know dynamic systems with feedback loops and delays tend towards overshoot and collapse, and collapse will really suck for a lot of people, we should try to build other feedback loops that make that collapse less likely, etc. Saying there is a self-correcting system in place doesn&#x27;t mean that we should let all current trends just continue because they will eventually somehow correct. Violent revolutions are also a correction of sorts...<p>Also, not sure with &quot;our duty is worth our own&quot; - who is &quot;our own&quot; and what social fiction is it built on? Family? Community? City? Nation-State? Race? Favorite board game? I think widening the empathy gap until you can view the people that grow your coffee as &quot;your own brothers and sisters&quot; is the name of the game for human evolution at the moment.