Just now on Twitter.

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Or your definition of apex. It doesn’t mean best. It means most. As the most influential species to calamity we are apex. As the most potential to understand global implications and ability to heal calamity we are apex. The moral oughts  just never seem to conquer self preservation

If you want to argue like that, you are still making my point. 

Too many in our species are ignoring others in our species who know we are fucking things up. So it ultimately may not matter how "smart" we think we are. If you are a passenger in a car shouting at the driver that they are about to run a red light, you can be right as rain, but if they don't listen to you, your being right means nothing if the driver runs the red light and you get T-boned.

I wasn’t arguing against you BRIAN, I was just clarifying your language. In th OP u stated “ Humans are NOT more important than other life” and then mixed important and apex up. We are apex merely for the fact we are so important to the ecology. I understood your driving point that while we have the most,we are seldom the best for the ecology of the planet; and I agree. But, if not us then whom?