The Earth stands on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and the fault is ours

[stormlord]

I'm going to confesss what I wrote in my post above is BS. I don't want to mislead anyone into thinking I was serious. There're people out there who actually would believe me and I don't want that.

BUt are there aliens out there? Maybe. I don't know. It'd be awesome to have a dream and the answers to be revealed, wouldn't it? Only trouble is the answers would be buried inside you and you couldn't prove them in todays world.

As to the OP, I was reading about the sixth massive extinction in 2003. Old news. If you can solve war and murder and all of our other problems you might be able to solve this too. Frankly, I don't see any silver bullet. Species have already perished due to us and will continue to at a increased rate. Whether or not we destroy ourselves is open to debate, but there's no controversy surrounding the major negative impacts we're having on this planet. Still, I remain optimistic and believe, despite the negative consequences which will ensue, we'll still become a space faring species and someday travel to the other stars. Even if I never see that day and die today or tomorrow or soon or whatever, I have faith humanity is far stronger than I.

EDIT: if I could still edit my previous post I'd delete it.