Mount Coronet

Don't forget that if they destroy the Earth, they lose all the plants and animals that thrive here and make that food possible. No guarantee that you'll be able to for-sure grow the full variety of things we put in our food on other worlds without a lot of effort put into getting such and operation set up, and that without destroying the Earth so that you can figure out all the chemistry needed. The plants...those are the special thing about Earth...forget the people!

 

As far as Humans being "special" or unique, I like the way Star Trek has (at least implicitly) looked at humanity. Why are the Q so interested in us? Yeah, there's the capacity for us to change and become like them, but that's also more to do with us possibly being like they were to begin with. It isn't unique, we're simply a repetition of them. Why are the Vulcans intrigued by us in Enterpise? We are super emotional, but aren't a warrior race like the Klingons, which they would expect given our history. Now, does that speak to our super specialness, or to the narrowmindedness of Vulcans? There end up being plenty other species who are both very emotion and not war-like. The Vulcans' tendency to judge from afar and their disinterest in actually exploring actively meet new races instead simply offers them a narrower view than the human crews get. In that case, we're just the most interesting thing in the nearby area, not in the quadrant and certainly not in the galaxy.

 

Although, when you think about it, us having a somewhat unique and special set of values, customs, and tendencies makes perfect sense. No reason another culture has to evolve like ours. Could be fight-driven like the Klingons, greed-centric like the Ferengi, utterly xenophobic like so many other species...each of these has the concept of kindness somewhere in them, we just apply it differently than they do, or we're more quick to change our ways because we simply value it more, or in different ways, than others. The Ferengi were perfectly willing to adapt...to changes in the market.

Food is pretty good though. Gotta admit, as someone who has studied baking, I like my odds here. XP