In an intergalactic civilisation, why would one expect un-augmented wild animals to represent any significant fraction of all life? There are strong incentives to use resources for human flourishing. Not a rhetorical question but I can’t think of any reason more compelling than the econ incentives. Notwithstanding language used in past pieces by pessimists, they don’t tend to contest this.
In an intergalactic civilisation, why would one expect un-augmented wild animals to represent any significant fraction of all life? There are strong incentives to use resources for human flourishing. Not a rhetorical question but I can’t think of any reason more compelling than the econ incentives. Notwithstanding language used in past pieces by pessimists, they don’t tend to contest this.
There are some arguments for potential future suffering here:
http://foundational-research.org/risks-of-astronomical-future-suffering/