Not if there are certain things that are truly beautiful and good and will never occur again if we destroy them. Those things are worth saving, and that's not being anthropomorphic.
Hmm, why must all judgments be self serving? For instance, if a soldier thinks it is the right/good/noble/beautiful thing to jump on a grenade, I fail to see how that is self serving by any normal definition.
Plus, many artists and other geniuses live horrible lives by evolutionary standards, all for the sake of something they consider beautiful and transcendent.
Finally, most people will report a subjective sense of self-transcendence when contemplating beauty and moral goodness. If we want to fly in the face of common experience we can say this is all selfish, but at that point it looks more like you're bending the data to fit your worldview instead of letting the data change your worldview.
