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I imagine the individuals affected might care. It’s also unlikely a destructive buologically change will only affect a single system.

And unlikely that this same cause would spare animals while only affecting humans. We do want animals to reproduce too…..

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True, possible, possible, depends. But on the other hand current levels of global resource and energy use have harmful effects on existing humans and animals. For example climate change increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires that kill billions of animals. Increasing the human population by billions more, which is the path we're on unless some factor or other decreases population growth, likely increases such effects. That matters if we want to investigate if the consequences of microplastics are overall bad or good.

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