The Biggest Threat to Humanity

We know that our species is taking 35% to 40% of the net primary productivity, directing it towards our one species out of maybe 10 million species and your field. So we are shrinking out nature. But when we're gone, they will be back. If you've got really humans today, the Earth would be a different place a thousand years from now. There'd be no trace of us. And what's going to happen a million years from now? You can't keep growing at that pace. I won't worry about it.

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