What's the project? The Human race deserves to die, complete extinction. And hopefully, no trace is ever left of us for anyone to find.
Maybe a very large part of the human race deserves to die, but not all of it, and I can't agree that no trace should be left. At the very least we should try to ensure that if we do become extinct, then we have done whatever we can to help any successors avoid the same fate. I have proposed a sub-project to try to achieve this [“If We Fail” project].
Unfortunately there is a significant possibility that we will have no successors. There is also a significant possibility that **** sapiens is alone in having a developed intelligence and in having created a technological civilisation, certainly in our galaxy if not in the universe. We have made a total f-up of it, but because of those possibilities I think we have a duty to try to secure the future of our species, but not at the cost of the degradation of our planetary biosphere. Ideally we should cut the human population down to a stable maximum of 1000 million or so, existing in a largely protected and un-sullied biosphere. Granted the necessary will and resources this could be achieved in less than a century, but the chance of the necessary will and resources materialising is approximately zero.
This forum is not really the place to go into all this more deeply, but I’ll attach a few PDFs of some bits which I’ve extracted from the project document which I wrote some years ago, in case either of you (Grizzly Notations & Gunge) (or anyone else) wants to read any more.
The bits are:
- a paragraph on our duty to preserve our species
- a paragraph and chart of the exploding human population
- a summary of the “If We Fail” project
- a simple chart showing the development of life on Earth. I put the whole lot onto one line to emphasise the evident enormous difficulty in the move from single-celled life to complex (multi-celled) life
- two appendices referred to in these bits of text, on Lagrange points and Von Neuman probes.
The footnote numbering reset itself in the extraction and conversion to PDFs, so ignore any discrepancies.