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It's nice to know that the earth starts to heal so quickly after humans are gone. Although by the time we are actually gone we might make it uninhabitable for o
by izzydata 7y ago
It's nice to know that the earth starts to heal so quickly after humans are gone. Although by the time we are actually gone we might make it uninhabitable for other life too.
- erikig 7y agoPhilosophical question: if humans are gone, does it really matter what happens to the earth?
- xyzzy_plugh 7y agoIf you're gone, does it really matter what happens to the earth?
- izzydata 7y agoI don't know. Does anything really matter at all even when you are alive?
- komali2 7y agoDoes anything really matter?
- xornox 7y agoIt does not matter in any case. The earth is just completely insignificant, extremely small grain of matter.
- everdrive 7y agoYes, of course. Things matter, even if there is no observer, (animals can observe in any case.) unless you're going to argue that "things mattering" is a matter of human perception in the first place.
- lukas099 7y agoIt matters to me what will happen when we're gone.
- throwaway894345 7y agoThis article doesn't demonstrate the earth "healing" (certainly not in a 1-month timeframe), and there isn't a quadrupling in bear population; the headline is a lie as the article later clarifies. The headline is referring to bears spreading out from their habitat to temporarily-vacated human habitats.
- izzydata 7y agoBut pollution seems to be able to dissipate quickly when abruptly stop polluting.