What is our ecological "niche," functionally, in the Biosphere? It's what we do, as it affects the Biosphere. What we do, our collective way of life, is all-important, and of course, the sum effect on the Biosphere of what we do is unspeakably evil. But do we care? Not enough to stop doing it. And that is absolutely unbelievable, but true. What our niche should be eludes my ability to imagine. But before long, it seems, the circumstances we have conspired to engineer will obviate the moral necessity to mend our ways, to fit ourselves to the Biosphere, and a sort of made-by-humans "natural selection" will come into play to bring our species' brilliant career to a close. --Or might there be some slight possibility of hope for a less than "final solution" to the human problematique? Perhaps, as it is the holiday season, we may be permitted some small hope.
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