Even humanity's lack of concern for its rampant overpopulation problem now made a terrible kind of sense. What difference did it make if our planet was capable of supporting all seven billion of us in the long term when a far greater threat to our numbers was waiting in the wings? And despite the overwhelming odds, humanity had done what was necessary to ensure its own survival. It filled me with a strange new sense of pride in my own species. We weren't a bunch of primitive monkeys teetering on the brink of self-destruction after all–this appeared ti be an altogether different kind of destruction we were teetering on the brink of. . Ernest Cline
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At first, this quote seems to be about the human race's overpopulation issue. Although overpopulation is something that many people are concerned about today, this quote was not written about that subject. This quote, in fact, is actually talking about the destruction of the Earth by humans. However, it is an interesting idea nonetheless.

The fact is that humans are destroying our planet through overpopulation. We are using up all the resources on this planet and it is starting to become scarce. We are slowly killing our planet with each day that passes by, but at least it is not happening as quickly as it would have without us being here.

Source: Armada

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