A Cosmocentric ethic is a belief that the natural state of our universe should remain as it is, without human attempts to terraform planets for human habitation. The terraforming (literally "Earth-shaping" of a Planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its This has been called a form of anti-humanism by opponents. Antihumanism is a term applied to a number of thinkers critical of values and beliefs originating in the Enlightenment.