# Screw you, Earth. I'm people... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 15, 2001, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-earth-im-people/58105 "2001-03-15T17:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-earth-im-people/58105/6 "2001-03-15T18:06:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alessan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Is human life (or on another level, quality of life) more important than The Earth? > > Important to whom? > > Mankind? God? Rocks? > \*\* Anything with the capacity or compulsion to be interested. I think it would someday be possible for humans to survive on earth through the use of technology, even if it were really trashed. The same goes for spreading through the solar system and beyond. If we had to use up all of the earth’s resources, making it unlivable in order to spread ourselves to other worlds, would it be worth it? If survival of our species is our main objective wouldn’t a built in fault tolerance (protection against the destruction of one world) be a worthy, if not noble goal? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-you-earth-im-people/58105)._