LemurofDamger t1_iroko2x wrote
How can we assume other life forms will be primarily motivated by greed as we higher primates are? How can we make the next assumption that these life forms devastated their environment in the pursuit of satisfying that greed?
durezzz t1_irpqpep wrote
It's about energy usage, not greed.
Intelligent life as we know it wants to reproduce, expand its territory and live comfortably.
We got to where we are by learning about better ways to do so, which led to new forms of energy usage.
It doesn't matter if there are cavemen living on another planet, we won't be able tell that they're there unless we go there, so there's no point in looking for anything unless we can detect it right now. We can't detect cavemen. We can detect pollutants.
It's not greedy for intelligent life to improve its technological capabilities and energy consumption techniques.....that's just what it does.
Ender16 t1_irpvdhl wrote
Greed?
How about, "we can assume that technological civilizations will have noticeable byproducts of producing technology"?
Sure there could be a non ambitious primative civilization out there. But A, they probably wouldn't have evolved intelligence if they weren't going to benefit from it and B, we couldn't detect them then.
StarChild413 t1_irqmkn7 wrote
And also pollution doesn't mean pollution to the level we're doing it even if it were in the same form
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