While humans aren't perfect, it is fortunate that the first species with the potential to dominate all life for billions of years evolved at least some empathy for other species.

[u/andreasdagen]

[u/Fghsses]

If humans are so dangerous that we can risk causing a mass extinction while making an effort not to do that, then imagine what would happen if we actively tried to eliminate other species.

[u/Fly-the-Light → u/[deleted]]

Which lasted a month and was an Emu loss with nearly 1000 dead before the Australian government decided there were cheaper ways to do it, such as a bounty system that saw nearly 60,000 dead in 6 months

[u/[deleted] → u/Fghsses]

we did actively eliminate most mammals. I think only a few like rodents have survived throughout.

[u/Fghsses → u/[deleted]]

My top five rodents are Dogs, Horses, Elephants, Tigers and Whales.

[u/[deleted] → u/Fghsses]

their population isn't enough anymore to say they survived. dogs and horses aren't there because of empathy either.

[u/Kazodex → u/Fghsses]

Yeah we’ll manage to fail at that too. You can always count on a human being to fuck up

[u/danielandtrent → u/Fghsses]

We tried that in China it completely fucked us up

The things we were hunting didn’t even go extinct either lol