> Our past meddling with ecosystems and biologies have often produced unintended consequences to great detriment
…we also effectively eliminated hunger, whole classes of diseases, and greatly extended healthy human lifespan across the planet.
Ultimately I think this attitude stems from the premise that there's a choice of some "stable state" that humanity abandoned, some kind of safe well balanced haven that we left to "meddle with ecosystems". There isn't, "ecosystems" tried their best to kill us at every point of our history (it seems there was a moment there were just a few thousands of us, nearly wiped out by a natural catastrophe!), and the only way to avoid that is to "meddle", learning from our mistakes and becoming better stewards of the planet.
We were, are, and always will be walking on a tightrope, we are just learning to do it better.
…we also effectively eliminated hunger, whole classes of diseases, and greatly extended healthy human lifespan across the planet.
Ultimately I think this attitude stems from the premise that there's a choice of some "stable state" that humanity abandoned, some kind of safe well balanced haven that we left to "meddle with ecosystems". There isn't, "ecosystems" tried their best to kill us at every point of our history (it seems there was a moment there were just a few thousands of us, nearly wiped out by a natural catastrophe!), and the only way to avoid that is to "meddle", learning from our mistakes and becoming better stewards of the planet.
We were, are, and always will be walking on a tightrope, we are just learning to do it better.