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Don't think I need to summarize this one. This is bad news for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Earth will survive and the humans will get what they deserve.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Millions of species will go down with us, some already have been relagated to extinction by our actions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The dinosaurs got wiped out and new life flourished. The same will happen again.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh then in that case nbd that we take millions of species who were living in harmony with nature with us. Serves them right for . . . existing in the same 20,000 year period we did.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Life is hard and unfair

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The dinosaurs got wiped out by a catastrophic meteor impact (or so we think). This is different. We are changing the climate at an accelerated pace that's never been seen before. Species adapt to things over time. You can't adapt if the weather isn't stable, and things dip between super hot and super cold, or visa versa, they stay super hot or super cold. We have other examples of worlds like that in our solar systems, and they are dead worlds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We are changing the climate at an accelerated pace that's never been seen before.

He said, right after mentioning a catastrophic meteor impact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There have been at least five major mass extinction events in the history of this planet. What will be after us in the future won't look like it does right now, but right now doesn't look anything like it did before any of those five events either.
As the saying goes, life finds a way. We just won't be around to witness it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Permian Triassic extinction event is the one most similar to current situation.

The level of atmospheric carbon dioxide rose from around 400 ppm to 2,500 ppm with approximately 3,900 to 12,000 gigatonnes of carbon being added to the ocean-atmosphere system during this period.[22] Several other contributing factors have been proposed, including the emission of carbon dioxide from the burning of oil and coal deposits ignited by the eruptions;[27][28] emissions of methane from the gasification of methane clathrates;[29] emissions of methane by novel methanogenic microorganisms nourished by minerals dispersed in the eruptions;