That is surely the most positive reaction I've read to this impending disaster, and I agree 100%. Although I'm not so sure it will be us humans who will be lucky enough to end up being the caretakers of the planet. Perhaps it will be the ants turn, as Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson conjecture in their eye-opening book Journey to the Ants in the following quote:

"If all humanity were to disappear, the remainder of life would spring back and flourish. The mass extinctions now under way would cease, the damaged ecosystems heal and expand outwards. If all the ants somehow disappeared, the effect would be exactly the opposite, and catastrophic. Species extinction would increase even more rapidly as the considerable services provided by these insects were pulled away."

(Of course, one other "positive" outcome for members of this forum would be the chance to finally break out those Altoid tin kits, and apply our survival skills to a real world situation... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> )