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The planet will survive until the Sun will engulf it during the red giant phase. 10B people hanging on Earth's surface may have more urgent concerns.
by angelzen 5y ago
The planet will survive until the Sun will engulf it during the red giant phase. 10B people hanging on Earth's surface may have more urgent concerns.
- hagbard_c 5y agoHumans survived glaciation and started to thrive at the climatic optimum so they'll survive this blip on the temperature graph as well. Some species could not adapt to the warming climate and the resulting changes in vegetation - from the cold open plains of the mammoth steppe [1,2] to a largely forested Eurasian continent, partly due to the disappearance of large herbivores which kept the trees at bay - and/or the increased predation by other species (humans being an important example of those) and died out, e.g. there is not much left of the Pleistocene megafauna [3,4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvs_Lake_Basin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvs_Lake_Basin [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_megafauna [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction
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