This geological era is the Antropocene, and there is a mass extenction going on, because of all the effects we’ve had on the planet, after dominating just about every ecosystem on land. None of our ape or hominid relatives or forbears did that. We objectively are an exceptional species — that’s not vanity. Whether a word with roots in “wisdom” is quite the right descriptor for this difference is less clear, but it’s definitely related to us knowing a lot.
This geological era is the Antropocene, and there is a mass extenction going on, because of all the effects we’ve had on the planet, after dominating just about every ecosystem on land. None of our ape or hominid relatives or forbears did that. We objectively are an exceptional species — that’s not vanity. Whether a word with roots in “wisdom” is quite the right descriptor for this difference is less clear, but it’s definitely related to us knowing a lot.