I hadn't known about the microbe end of the story. I'm kinda disappointed. I had long imagined that the inevitable process of fossil fuel generation and accumul

I hadn't known about the microbe end of the story. I'm kinda disappointed. I had long imagined that the inevitable process of fossil fuel generation and accumulation would eventually turn the earth into a flaming tarball, and it was those crazy humans who finally figured out how to tar -xvf the sucker to the anthropocene.