Oh dear, Godwin’s law, instead of addressing the claim?.(also a strawman)
Looking at the time and place, I think the my claim is clearly true…
Genghis Khan lived in the thirteenth century, in a preindustrial world. Have a look at his empire on a map.
I suspect he may never have considered the environmental effects of his conquests any more than did Julius Caesar or any other ruthless conqueror. Surely it’s only a matter of degree?
It is not my intention to mount a mortal justification of war. With Genghis Khan there were unintended long term benefits to the environment. Not to vast numbers of people of course, what with having been slaughtered and all.
I consider war a great evil, which can rarely be morally justified. However, humans being have been fighting each other in groups pretty much for as long as there have been humans. This leads me to suspect war may have some evolutionary advantage. On the other hand, our innate violence may be a vestigial evolutionary trait for all I know.
A genuine misanthrope, it is my opinion that humans going extinct will greatly benefit the planet. Due to our capacity for self destruction, I think it’s unlikely homo sapiens will become an old species.
In the clip I linked it’s claimed that all traces of human beings would be eliminated in a million years. Not long at all in geological terms.