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Depends on how you look at it.
In the lens of human benifit, it is bad, because as the number of niches without humans as a factor decreases, what we are left with is species compatible with humans.
This means we are left with domesticated species and species specialized to be human pests.
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Then we exterminate the human pests and we are only left with species that get along with us. I.e. a planet sized garden and we are the caretakers. Sounds based.
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Not going to happen. There's always going to be some that slip by. C0ckroachs, rats, bed bugs, the uncountable agricultural pests, etc.
Even if we use genetic engineering or artificial life to attempt to exterminate our problems, life, uh, finds a way.
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I think cockroaches beat zombie worms so I still say burn em all.
Rats can be easily domesticated. What we should have done is take domestic rates and breed them to only love humans, then breed them further cannibalize all street rats, then feed them some extra steroids.
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If we could exterminate pests without somehow harming ourselves we would have done it already.
We almosts got rid of bed bugs with DDT, but then it turns out they became resistant to the poison while also poisoning ourselves.
Complete extermination just isn't going to happen, and without that, we are just giving opportunity for life to adapt.
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This statement is so pants on head dumb. The only reason we haven't exterminated all pests is because they are pests, by definition they are almost impossible to get rid of. Whenever we are able to though we do actually kill as many as we can. See for example- those disease causing worms and stuff. Got rid of all of them and nobody complained.
Ah you meant it in that way. Got it. In that case we just need to upgrade our extermination methods. Soon inshallah.
Wrong. By that logic zero animal species go extinct every year.
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You are confusing random species going extinct as a biproduct of our actions against purposely trying to exterminate species that have evolved to have us as hosts.
We have been attempting to upgrade our extinction methods since before we invented agriculture, and we continue to fail more than keep them at bay. Even if we manage to get rid of one, we give space for another to take its' place.
There is no solution. An asteroid hit the Earth and turned it into a giant oven, and still, life goes on.
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There are no giant megafauna around trying to eat your butt at night. That proves this statement false.
You are confusing referring to pests still alive today with all the dangerous animals and pests that have been alive since humanity started. Most of those guys are dead now. Only the most resilient are left and we are getting better at controlling them. Mosquitoes are disappearing for example.
Not with that attitude.
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I never said anything would just end up evolving to over taking us, just that it would be a perpetual problem that is more likely to get worse than better.
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