Why do some people place such importance on humans continuing beyond Earth? Is it not just the ultimate hubris to think that we know that doing so is even a good idea?
Would we complain if whales said "we don't want our species to end"? Or ants, for that matter?
"No whales, it's the ultimate hubris that you think you have a right to exist and continue existing."
Why is it hubris for humans, like all other species on Earth, to want to exist, propagate, and, since we're intelligent, learn and grow our intelligence, and spread it beyond home base?
An intelligent species consisting of individuals who do not value their continual existence would disappear fairly soon.
I know a 70 year old in the US who, after the 2020 election, made a survival plan for living in Australia because the world was going to crumble.
All the while I'm thinking... at 70...why...
I barely understand a young person doing it, but definitely don't understand such planning for like 5 extra years of end life.
There are a lot of things that we as a species have gotten right and are worth preserving.
In the words of Prof. Brian Cox, it would be a tragedy if Earth is the only place in the galaxy where consciousness exists, and it would be wiped out by an asteroid.