Modern civilisation and advanced technology are as natural as wild animals

Hmm good username then.

Why cant we damage the planet? We can fix it in the future when its economically viable to do so. Sure we might not have Whales or elephants in the wild but they would still exsist due to curiosity sake.

I'm a humanist as in we are so high on the food chain we are out of it completely thus we should do whatever we want in the intrest of furthering the human race. Though this thought process is also shared with every living thing in exsistance as well but we won that race on earth.

I'm not sure really, maybe this theory isn't perfect and there are a few flaws in it. I came up with this explanation below but I'm no expert so maybe I'm just talking out of my ass. I just hate to sound like a pompous pseudo-intellectual know-it-all who thinks he's an expert just cos he has a vague understanding of this kind of stuff, and who can never admit when he's wrong, lol.

But it seems to me anyway that (like any organism) everything we do, we do because it would benefit us, whether it will benefit us in the long term or in the short term. The long term benefits are health and the short term benefits are pleasure.

For animals in the wild, pleasurable short term benefits are usually also healthy things that would benefit them in the long term, eg. eating sugary food. A small amount of naturally occurring sugary food (eg. fruits) would be beneficial for animals and they'd never usually have the risk of eating too much of it, so it would be advantageous for them to crave it so that they'll definitely eat it whenever they have the opportunity. So because of that, if they were given an unlimited amount of it, then it would be natural for them to eat so much of it that it would be very unhealthy.

Humans have an unlimited amount of sugary food, however we're unique in that we're aware that eating too much of it is unhealthy. So we choose not to eat it because it would be beneficial to us in the long term. But because animals are unaware and more guided by their instincts, it would be unnatural for them to choose not to eat it if they had the choice. But then people who eat sugary food despite knowing that it's unhealthy are still doing it because it's beneficial, it's just that they're choosing the short term pleasure benefits over the long term health benefits. Same thing for the screens, people are choosing the short term pleasure benefits over the long term health benefits.

Some people in the scientific community think that somehow the human body will evolve into a horribly disfigured body in a 1000 years or so due to technology. I dont think this is the case, it's too soon of a time to have that massive of a change in biology. What people fail to realize is that humans by and large have remained the same level of intellect for the last few thousands of years it's just that learning institutions have become more prevalent. The problem with technology is the simple fact no matter what ailment you may have technolgy can fix it to some degree. This in later generations lead to more mutations that would straight up kill us more than a hundred years ago. Humans of the future will likely look like humans of today and the past. Though the possibility on only having one race in the future is optimistic about the human condition at best... or the worst form of pessimism.

Humans: we don't adapt to the environment we adapt the environment for us.

So pretty much humans are the Russia of the natural order of adaption.

Righto, duft, my man. I am not going to stop driving my car to reduce greenhouse gas, because I know you won't stop driving either. That's the "natural" condition of human assholeism. 600 years from now, this planet is going to be cooked. Stratospheric reflection with SO₂ is only a band aid remedy. Assholeism will triumph over all else. The world will be fucked.