If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.