Not pretending there’s not a change, just don’t accept it is an incontrovertibly negative change. Some species will be worse off, others will be better off, just as it has been since the planet was created and ultimately nature will sort out any changes itself, even if that were to mean the ultimate human catastrophe of human extinction. The earth doesn’t belong to humans.
The world and life would still carry on after we’ve gone, but we are the only species capable of solving global problems and we seem to have an insatiable urge to innovate and solve problems. As well as being the biggest danger to life we are also the only species capable of making the discoveries which could ultimately preserve life and make the world a better place, but we can only do it in stages, some of which will be negative.
As a species we are more aware now than we were 50 years ago and do a lot more to mitigate some of our negative impacts, but alas we replace those with others and due to massive world population growth and growth in high energy dependant technologies we struggle just to stand still.
We each only have around 80 years of life to live before we turn to dust and in a maximum of about 150 years, there will be no one alive who has met us or personally remembers us.
But we won’t be around to worry about that. Live life while you have it, because you don’t get a second chance.
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