Brits are really depressive idiots, really good thing we fought their empire. This Kipping guy is the typical extinction apologist. He claims we can be impartial in observing, but we can never be impartial, physics proved that. We change systems simply by observing them. Our thoughts give body to our actions so if you think like an extinctionist you are practically doing it.
He couldn't come up with anything positive about humankind. If he had, he would have said it. I say we're awesome. I'm not a scientist. I don't want humans to be extinguished. I want to do awesome things as part of humankind. And I definitely don't think humankind is rats.
This is exactly what is wrong with science these days, and schools like Columbia University in particular. They sit in their drab rooms engineering nothing but thinking how to end humankind because they're basically depressed.