Or how about choosing to save some endangered species like the panda bears or polar bears over a school bus full of children
of course I would choose to save the bears
I would blow up a school bus full of panda bears or polar bears to save a life, especially if its more than one life. I would probably wipe out an entire species, too, assuming it weren't something important to human culture or society and it was something meaningless like a random endangered insect or rodent.
There are several billions of human beings on earth, we actually have way too many people on our poor overtaxed planet, humans are not a rarity
We just need a way to distribute food and water far more effectively, as well as a way to get resources so everyone doesn't have to live in horrible poverty. And we've solved all three (better government for the first two, space mining for the third), we just need to put them into practice.
Interestingly, taking out the damn profit factor would be a huge step forward in accomplishing all three. Practically every famine ever can be attributed to political incompetence or outright malice at some level (British India, Stalin, etc.) because a "natural famine" is nearly impossible.
Most of the world’s crises right now are due to issues of shortages of food, clean water, and decent jobs.
But zealous environmentalists fail to see that protecting the environment to such an extreme degree means there will be shortages of food and clean water and there certainly won't be enough decent jobs.
Protecting the environment shouldn't be for the sake of nature, but for the sake of humanity. Everything is here to work for us in some way, be it as food, tools, or cultural and naturalistic appreciation.
And take away a few billion people who drive and we wouldn’t be having a oil crisis right now.
No, take away oil companies and the desire for profit and you can run cars off of methanol or numerous other fuels.
@Demon Duck of Doom
The fact you can even think of that question at all proves humans are superior to animals.
