Even that isn’t a guarantee. Non-human life is insanely resilient by human standards, but zoom out to literal entire observable universe with its trillions of planets, and so far we have a sample size of exactly 1 that’s capable of supporting life, to include extremophiles. They’ll outlive us for sure, but we have no idea if they’ll outlive whatever downward spiral we’ve set our planet on.
In the context of the universe at large, “life, uh, does NOT find a way!” Life is a statistically insignificant fluke that’s fragile as fuck.
Not only that - but on earth, life has only about a billion years more before the sun renders this planet uninhabitable. Losing hundreds of thousands of years is a really high price even on the cosmic scale.
Even that isn’t a guarantee. Non-human life is insanely resilient by human standards, but zoom out to literal entire observable universe with its trillions of planets, and so far we have a sample size of exactly 1 that’s capable of supporting life, to include extremophiles. They’ll outlive us for sure, but we have no idea if they’ll outlive whatever downward spiral we’ve set our planet on.
In the context of the universe at large, “life, uh, does NOT find a way!” Life is a statistically insignificant fluke that’s fragile as fuck.
Not only that - but on earth, life has only about a billion years more before the sun renders this planet uninhabitable. Losing hundreds of thousands of years is a really high price even on the cosmic scale.