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I admire your work @cryptosharon

Loved seeing this subject! I shared on my instagram the other day a few sad thoughts about Sudan, the last male white rhino dying. I cannot even begin to fathom _where we think we got the right_ to treat this planet and its many creatures so horrifically. 

So many people are totally unconscious of how their actions ripple out into the world. Not that I believe myself to be fully conscious by any means, but I at least _try_ to pay attention to how my choices and the choices of the people I support play out on the larger stage.

I think a lot of wanting to reproduce and have children is for that emotional support. As we age, we need youthto hel p take care of us and adopt the physically demanding jobs of adulthood. That was a survival technique, but now that we have prolonged our lifespan through medical procedures etc, the amount of elderly is beginning to weigh down on the youth, and we won't be able to sustain this momentum.

In the end, I suppose, what can we really do but try our best?

Thanks for sharing these thoughts!

Yah good dance like it very much @cryptosharon

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A lot of our problems are caused by we humans. I'm African, I believe our problems came with the Western Civilization. We had our ways of doing our own things, we lived life the right way, advanced at our own pace. 
Then the Europeans came, trying to Fast-track everything and change us. 
This pattern of government, this centalization is no good. A tiny group of people making selfish decisions. 
And most recently, the development of technologies without considering the impact. Nanoparticles are future threats.

You might be glad to know that the emotions and energy of some persons focus on finding solutions to human-caused problems, like the destruction of the environment.  Projects like the international effort of the [Norway-Doomsday Vault](http://time.com/doomsday-vault/) , private efforts like the [Vivos Global Genome Vault](http://www.terravivos.com/secure/cryovaultjoinus.htm), and [others in the works](https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/nations-adopt-doomsday-vaults-svalbard-frozen-zoo-preserve-animal-plant-dna-freezing/53413098) provide a ray of for humanity and the animal/plant kingdom it oversees. In the event human wisdom falters in the future, society can reset its mistakes - to reseed and repopulate. 
Yes, the plan does not prevent catastrophic events from occurring, and I don't know if anything will ever do, but it does provide a sense of assurance and hope. Humanity's capacity for self-destruction can only be matched by its determination to find a way to survive and prosper in the worst of circumstances.  Peace. @fcpway

I love the way you write an article. Very entertaining.

We absolutely deserve every bit of what's going to happen to us. In the long run, it will always be about survival. There's no deserve anywhere in this picture. The universe is brutal.

I don't see any link from "we aren't special" to "we should cease to exist". More like as we have nothing special compared to other animals, we all are looking at survival. Except a significant difference is that most humans are not in a subsistence mode of survival. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but anyway, yeah... I don't think we are that special. Special, but not special.

Hiya Sharon

Great article. I haven't read anything this interesting on Steemit in ages! Thank you for tagging me. I'm so glad I didn't miss this.

> Rhinos are prettier than certain tribes who will lose their whole heritage due to emigration, foreign influence and forced policies. 

That's so true. We pick and choose favourites and wallow in our superiority (and of course the men get to be best of all in this game). 

In regards to empathy and humanity sacrificing itself in favour of sheep (and psychopaths), I think this has already begun. We have breatharians and others adopting diets which leave them with deficiencies in favour of the species we eat. We have do-gooders and bleeding hearts embracing the criminally insane. If we continue along this road, some batches of humans, over-intellectualising, eschewing their nature, will devolve (as a result of lacking essential nutrients) or fall prey to the callous individuals they help. 

Great article. Loved it.

Thanks
Anj x