We seriously need to get off this rock.

[Cort Haus]

I got as far as the misanthropic description of our species as an "infestation" and stopped.

Back in my young, starry-eyed days of reading Timothy Leary I'd have devoured the lot. SMI^2LE anyone?

Instead I'll just have another beer.

[notyoueither]

I didn't take that as misanthropic. It is an apt description of the spread of humans across the globe from a dispassionate view.

[Lorizael]

I got as far as the misanthropic description of our species as an "infestation" and stopped.

Back in my young, starry-eyed days of reading Timothy Leary I'd have devoured the lot. SMI^2LE anyone?

Instead I'll just have another beer.

Yeah, you totally missed the point of the essay. He's actually saying that we're pretty damn lucky to have as many people as we do. wtg letting your biases cloud your judgment.

[Cort Haus]

For me to have missed the point of the essay, I would have to have read it.

[-Jrabbit]

Dyson Spheres ftw!

Dyson Sphere (theoretical)


Dyson Sphere (practical)

[monolith94]

C. S. Lewis' Out Of the Silent Planet is actually somewhat about this very subject, with the antagonist being a fellow who basically wants to cleanse Mars of sentient life for the perpetuation of the human species.