I feel sympathy with the writer and agree that I am glad I am advanced enough in years to not have to see where our population will have pushed the earth in another fifty years. I thought this would be themed around human kindness to each other but it is as much about human kindness to our planet. Either way round humans are less than kind.

Wars, both physical and philosophical tear our societies apart just when we need to pull together to save our future selves. I have little hope for the kind of cooperation necessary to reverse the horrible things this piece predicts. I just hope there will be enough of our wild and beautiful planet left to rebuild after we have had our way with it.

I hope that we won't be the mass extinction that wipes out all life. I would feel a little peace in the extinction of humanity if we left a few bugs and a few plants around to rebuild the ecosystem from. Even better if there were mammals and flowers, fish and fungi, a mild bit of diversity to rebuild from. But I fear that earth will have to rebuild from bacteria.

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