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If we are not destroying the planet as you claim, then animal species would be flourishing. In reality, insects, fish, and many species of animals, especially animals above certain weight, they're all dying off and going extinct.

As we humans advance, we destroy the habitat of other species. As industrial agriculture expands, we consume all the topsoil (soil with microorganisms, worms, etc. in it.), we extract dietary micronutrients from it, we pump all of the groundwater, kill all the pollinators and insects, then cause collateral damage to all migratory species that cross those territories.

We dump trash everywhere, we pollute the atmosphere, we pollute the oceans, we make the oceans more acidic, we are raising the temperature of the planet, our industrial plants dump toxic chemicals everywhere... and the list goes on and on and on.

You, on the other hand, are heavily influenced by an alternate reality which is a combination of television and Internet content, documentaries, and uplifting stories about how some experimental technology 50 years away from mass production that is prohibitively expensive and makes things 1% better for the environment, while things get 10% worse each year. You are completely out of touch with reality and the hunter gatherers from the future hunting contaminated vermin will hate you.



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