In the short term, sure. But what if this is a local maximum which accidentally cut off all viable future branches? A bit of caution when making these irreversible decisions would go a long way.
Wiping out the rest of the planet to give us a safe habitat may have been a giant mistake, monocultures tend to end bad.
we are not wiping out the rest of the planet, we are manipulating it into better serving us through thd use of technology. We are potentially able to deal with ex. astroid impact which no other species is able to, in my book that counts for way more.
Wiping out the rest of the planet to give us a safe habitat may have been a giant mistake, monocultures tend to end bad.