Consider the following a thought experiment and not some ideology worth attacking.
This type of discussion always reminds me of a story Terence Mckenna told (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLikdK8LjmE). To paraphrase, a vine refused to grow onto a branch of a tree in his backyard. One day, while contemplating this unfortunate affair, he witnessed the branch fall off the tree. He realized that the vine 'sensed' the instability. He then thought that the complex ecosystem of Earth might have a similar mechanism and that it might be aware that the Sun will explode at some point in the future, destroying all life. In anticipation for this inevitability, the human race (or another advanced species) was called forth to extend life/consciousness beyond the confides of our eventual death trap.
So why tell this story? What if the destruction of ones home planet is part of the evolutionary process of advanced consciousness? The same way that a fetus must purge itself from the womb or risk death by toxicity. In weird paradoxical way, those that pollute planet Earth might be playing their role as designed.
It's worth noting that I'm 100% for ecologically sound technological advancement and a society that doesn't destroy the environment. But part of me thinks everything is going according to plan, when viewed from a large enough perspective.
Earth is not intelligent. Species can and will drive themselves to extinction via evolution.
The destruction of Earth may be the only way to make humanity successful in the long term - that was the view given in some of Asimov's stories. Or it may just be a way to kill ourselves. The ecosystem as a whole is not an optimized complex system like a vine; it has not been subject to evolutionary pressure. There is no plan; the outcome will be down entirely to luck and our own decisions.
This type of discussion always reminds me of a story Terence Mckenna told (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLikdK8LjmE). To paraphrase, a vine refused to grow onto a branch of a tree in his backyard. One day, while contemplating this unfortunate affair, he witnessed the branch fall off the tree. He realized that the vine 'sensed' the instability. He then thought that the complex ecosystem of Earth might have a similar mechanism and that it might be aware that the Sun will explode at some point in the future, destroying all life. In anticipation for this inevitability, the human race (or another advanced species) was called forth to extend life/consciousness beyond the confides of our eventual death trap.
So why tell this story? What if the destruction of ones home planet is part of the evolutionary process of advanced consciousness? The same way that a fetus must purge itself from the womb or risk death by toxicity. In weird paradoxical way, those that pollute planet Earth might be playing their role as designed.
It's worth noting that I'm 100% for ecologically sound technological advancement and a society that doesn't destroy the environment. But part of me thinks everything is going according to plan, when viewed from a large enough perspective.