Listen to you all, whiny little bitches. Dry your eyes and harden the fuck up. So we suck up resources, so we've beaten this planet into submission. I say fucking great. No reason to sit and get fat. I say we cull the herd, get rid of the whiners, the arguers, anyone who is a drain on society. Then we form a single world empire, focus everything we've got into legitimate, useful space travel and terraforming. Once we can successfully move, I say we rape this rock of every useful resource it has, leave it a charred, worthless corpse, and set about spreading the human disease to the furthest reaches of the universe, because guess what? Somebody else probably already is!
I propose that we become a race of galactic nomads, moving from system to system, stripping them bare and leaving nothing behind. If there's intelligent life somewhere, great, we fuck them up and steal their shit to make ourselves stronger before they do it to us.
It's in our nature as animals. Humans have gotten to the point that we think we're better than nature. Allowing our weak to survive, breeding in genetic weakness, denying our instincts to hunt, kill and rise to the top, pfffft.
If 2 bears meet on a narrow track, do they sit and hold hands? Fuck no, they tear strips off each other to see who's going to back up.
If a lion kills a zebra, and a stronger lion comes along and says "fuck it, I'm gonna steal me that zebra" is that lion wrong? Rude, immoral, unethical? No, it's doing what comes naturally, stomping the weak into the ground so that the strong can take their rightful place.
We are the weak lion, people. And someone's coming to steal our zebra. Maybe not soon, but somewhere out there, some other species is taking shit over and when our path meets theirs, I don't wanna be the one to have to back up.