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When people say dying planet I think most are referring to "made uninhabitable by humans"
by asdf333 8y ago
When people say dying planet I think most are referring to "made uninhabitable by humans"
- UnpossibleJim 8y agoIt could be argued that, that same self absorption and lack of attention is what has led us to to a point where we now have to worry about about a planet that is quickly becoming less habitable to our (and many other) species. But that's picking nits, really.
- infinite8s 8y agoIt's more like "made uninhabitable for humans/current life". I'm sure after a few hundred million years some new forms of biodiversity would arise to replace what can't survive whatever disaster we leave behind (short of sundering the earth into multiple pieces and pushing us out of our current orbit). One model of genotypic diversity is that it is a mostly random walk through a huge multidimensional space, and while it's unlikely to revisit the same point twice, nature has only explored a small fraction of the total space.