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That is a realllyy simplistic way of looking at things that doesn't at all speak to the issue at hand. Is there still lots of plant cover? Sure. But when you
by GVIrish 9y ago
That is a realllyy simplistic way of looking at things that doesn't at all speak to the issue at hand.
Is there still lots of plant cover? Sure. But when you get into what types of environments are intact and healthy enough to support the normal fauna, we start to see problems. So there may be forest, but there may now be a tremendous drop in the amount of wildlife in the forest because the food chain has been badly damaged.
Insects form the foundation of many ecosystems and massive drops in insect biomass would be devastating to all of the animals up that food chain. And there are a number of reasons insects can be disappearing from pesticides, to loss of specific species of plants, to air pollution.
Even if we continue on our path of anthropomorphic mass extinctions, life on Earth will adapt and move on, that's not in question. But Earth may not be very hospitable for human kind if we don't change course.