This article from the University of Science and Technology of China is brilliantly written… I want to share it with everyone. Whether viewed as popular science commentary or a piece of humanistic reflection, it is outstanding.
 
What will ultimately doom this planet has never been extraterrestrials. It stems from our own arrogance and ignorance. Some wage wars, some harm nature, some oppress their own people through class hierarchy, some discriminate against others based on innate traits such as race and gender, and some hurt those they love with harsh words…
 
Yet amid all this, there are still people fixated on a may non‑existent enemy, even using it as a distraction to indulge their greed and keep harming this tiny, fragile pale blue dot.