"It
wasn't until human impacts started becoming a factor that large body
sizes made mammals more vulnerable to extinction,. . .Homo
sapiens
are
identified as a species around 200,000 years ago, so this occurred
not very long after the birth of us as a species. It just seems to be
something that we do.”
Wherever we go, the damage accrues
because killing things is what we do.
We eliminate big things then start on the the small,
it only ends when there's nothing at all.
Maybe someday when the meteor hits
blasting advanced civilization to bits
without all of us the Earth can start to mend.
I'd say the odds are — at best?! — one-in-ten.