The answer is the intuitive one: We absolutely need to be worried about what humans are doing to the planet. But we should be worried about the transformations we’re causing and all the destruction of ecosystem services that they entail, not because extinction is inherently bad, but—first and foremost—because these transformations might well destroy us.

What a pointless waste of time and energy to write this article. “Extinction isn’t bad unless, of course, we’re eating at the very foundations of human existence, in which case it is in fact bad.”

Also his pinned tweet is a link to an article claiming global warming would have been worse under socialism.