Watching ABC news.......what the hell is going on with the weather???

[0rganism]

17. Someone had to go first, but yeah we really let our descendants down

It was always inevitable that a species of gifted, curious technologists would mess things up globally in unexpected ways. The evolutionarily-positive approach would be to find ways to coordinate a global-scale fix for whatever we broke. This in turn would help to propel us into a new era of geo-engineering which would make extra-terrestrial colonization possible, catapulting our species to its next growth phase.

However, we've run up against a problem we can't solve technologically: we don't care enough about each other or future generations to enable survival of the biosphere. For the whole thing to work out we needed a greater degree of empathy. Maybe, if life survives, the next technology-capable species will learn from our mistakes and adapt itself to give two shits about its overall well-being. Maybe our offspring can do it too, but they'll be starting from a disadvantage.