You'll find that a species, once extinct, will remain extinct, some of which we don't even know are extinct because we killed them off before we discovered them. You advocate slash and burn because things will grow back, but what never grows back equally slowly if at all is the relationship between ourselves and the natural world. When that dies, then we can easily kill the entire planet and ourselves. It's a matter of practicality as well as philosophy. When the earth becomes nothing more to us than a hill to topple, to build aggregate, then what?
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