Great point—it was flagged in the linked post, but I forgot to explicit that.
Regarding wild animals, it is so hard to estimate whether their lives are overall net negative (or positive) and to what extent, that I forgot to precise this huge caveat here. We still don’t have good enough data, and there are large uncertainties (e.g. what is the impact of climate change if it makes siberia more habitable?)
But this could indeed change the overall sign of the impact of humanity (and there are some futures where we take better care of wild animals—which would be great).
But yeah, more solid data is needed on that topic.
Great point—it was flagged in the linked post, but I forgot to explicit that.
Regarding wild animals, it is so hard to estimate whether their lives are overall net negative (or positive) and to what extent, that I forgot to precise this huge caveat here.
We still don’t have good enough data, and there are large uncertainties (e.g. what is the impact of climate change if it makes siberia more habitable?)
But this could indeed change the overall sign of the impact of humanity (and there are some futures where we take better care of wild animals—which would be great).
But yeah, more solid data is needed on that topic.