Unfortunately or not, life on Earth will not go on after humans are gone. We will be the last of the vertebrates to disappear, because we have air conditioning and all kinds of adaptive tricks. We're taking everyone with us, which makes it even more crucial to do all we can to stop it. Human intelligence has the power to be a helpful power, if we use it for restoration instead of for profit and ego. Indigenous leaders have been telling us this for centuries. I'm writing an article about it now.