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** They attacked population/government/military centers, not resources. What the heck kind of natural resources are in the Manhattan? They'll collect the resources ''after'' killing the sapient lifeforms.
*** They could have decided to take out all lifeforms in the solar system before strip-mining every planet. At least you won't have to watch your back for any possible attacks, how unlikely that would be.
** Most of the issues you cite are massively, massively overplayed by the environmentalist lobby to make them seem vastly more dire than they are. (We've been about three years from completely and totally exhausting all the oil on the planet for at least thirty years now, according to these people.) Also, all of that means precisely dick if all the aliens want to do is effectively stripmine the entire planet down to the core for minerals and essential elements.
* They seem to know us well and have great biological skills. Why not just create a supervirus and THEN wipe out (if necessity arises) all of the surviving homo sapiens? If [[I Am a Humanitarian]] is one of the goals, a super-flu that makes us comatose in a matter of days is probably better than wipe out the cities on Earth that host half of our population.
** Viruses spread and mutate like crazy. If useful planets are so rare that they spent 50 years traveling to Earth, they ''really'' wouldn't want to unleash a bioweapon that could get out of hand and render the planet impossible to harvest. Besides, as far as conventional warfare went, they were wiping the floor with us [[Puny Earthlings]] anyway, so there's no reason to take that extra risk.
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