It's just a sandbox of reality, a temporary timeshare, ours for now. So what if, by some staggering degree, we've simply let it go awry somehow, and left the land in tears, ignoring all the knowledge that we did acquire through the years to shuffle on, bemused by life, amid the Ev'rests of destruction that we leave? Yea, better that we humans all were rid, to gift her with the time she needs to grieve and banish all her fears.
This self-destruction is, you must agree, a crueler tribute than we can allow. She's just a sandbox of reality, a temporary timeshare,