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Scientist warn 1 billion on track to die from climate change.
(www.sciencealert.com)
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Oh, our world will be fine, it's not the Earth's first mass extinction event. We - and a lot of flora and fauna we depend on - are really fucked though.
I hate seeing this take repeated. Just because there have been other mass extinction events doesn't mean the earth will be fine this time. If we fuck things up bad enough it will cause a runaway greenhouse effect. At which point the earth will not be fine, because it will be Venus 2.0. Additionally if we kill ourselves off but somehow fall short of that point, who cares if the earth will be fine in our absence? As far as we're aware we are the only sapient life in the universe. This dismissive, humanity hating attitude that its fine if we die off because the planet won't literally cease to exist, is so dumb. How about if we just be better instead of going extinct?
I agree in general, but there is physically not enough CO2 on this planet to turn it into Venus. So the planet is safe in that regard. It's going to get tough for a few hundreds of thousands of years (just a blink of an eye for the planet), then a new equilibrium will emerge.
Brought https://www.poetry.com/poem/384/optimist to mind.
It’s an interesting mass extinction event, too. Have we ever seen one species balloon to such predominance? Humans are like 80% of mammalian biomass on the planet. Definite loss of biodiversity. I wonder if it’s a loss of biomass too.
Hard to beat the dominance of archosaurs on Earth for about 180 mio years. Humans are a blink of an eye compared to that.
As long as we don't kill off the bunch beetles, we'll be okay.
Man we still fucked it all up though