Re: "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in the Last 485 Million Years"

Paul S Person wrote:

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 That resembles an attitude (which I do not say that you have) that has
puzzled me for some time: many people who claim to accept Natural
Selection are adamant that this, that, or the other species /must/ be
saved.
 Natural Selection, of course, /requires/ that species go extinct so
that better-adapted species can thrive.
 This is like efforts a while back (and possibly continuing) to return
a certain patch of urban uncleared ground (it is in a park and
contains a creek that, no doubt, marks the low point of the valley we
are in) to its original condition by removing invasive species.

In the first place, the fact that evolution is real doesn't mean we should derive our ethics from it.
Gravity is real, but you would certainly do what you could to save someone who is falling.
And if a species is going extinct because of our actions, that should at least give us pause.  Even at the purely materialistic level.
William Hyde