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[Thorne]

We are so many people who use the planet so hard that the whole thing is in fact our habitat. And we are responsible for our actions, being the sentient species.

Nope. There are vast sections of the planet which are not habitable by humans, not without major technological help, mainly from those living in habitable areas. If we destroy the ecosystems of those habitable areas, there will be no place left for us to go, at least not where we can maintain our civilization.

No, life wil not just neccesarily go on.

One thing modern science has shown us is that life is extraordinarily tenacious. No matter what mankind can do, there will be some form of life which will not only survive but will thrive in the new ecology. Humanity may not be here to see it, but the possibility that we could completely sterilize the planet is so remote as to be next to impossible. Even if we managed to destroy the planet, breaking it up into fragments whirling around the sun as another asteroid belt, there will likely be microscopic life surviving on some of those fragments. Humanity's problem is to make certain that we don't destroy ourselves. The planet, and life, can take care of themselves.

[lucy]

NEven if we managed to destroy the planet, breaking it up into fragments whirling around the sun as another asteroid belt...

Pretty hard to do, according to this website.

[Thorne]

Pretty hard to do, according to this website.

LOL! Some interestingly destructive ideas, there. Number 10 seems like the best way to go about it.

Strangely enough, though, I've seen this method proposed as a way to SAVE the Earth, from being eaten by the Sun as it expands into a red giant in another 5 billion years or so. Simply maneuver a sufficiently large asteroid into the proper orbit so that, once each year it will tug the Earth slightly further from the Sun.