I'll take it.
I'm the kind of person who thinks things for the greater good are most important.
We're headed down a path that I personally see as disastrous. I've believed for a few years now that we're going to more or less kill ourselves off here in the next 60-70 years. Not completely, we won't go extinct, but we will cause so much damage and harm to the enviornment that I think we will either lock ourselves on Earth with no way of fixing the damage done while being stuck to a maximum population limit due to the nature of the Earth's enviornment - the resources to grow past a population of say a few million people will no longer exist - or a less permanent but still very lengthy situation where we are stuck in that same predicament for thousands and thousands of years.
Permanent world peace and cooperation is the most important thing that we need. I think humans are capable of solving all of the problems facing us in the modern era. We don't, because we don't really see the bigger pictuere and it's unrealistic to expect us to work together. We don't understand that we're in that position and the people in power tend to not even care. I think this is a natural thing, but unfortunately, it's leading us down this very, very dangerous path. The question to me is will we manage to pull things together before we've caused more destructive harm than we already have? And the answer is not looking like a yes.
We really need to get our shit together. Your trade off, to me, is near total extinction with irreperable harm to the planet with the best-case scenario being a very bleak future for literally thousands of years, locking us into a reality where we can no longer grow beyond our borders, and not just for humanity but for nearly all life on the planet - or a potentially very bright future at the cost of immediate life. In the long term, I think it's the right choice.
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