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It's a disturbing question - one that's hardly going to get fair and objective consideration in out society. Neither the right wing nor the left have the abili
by yarg 4y ago
It's a disturbing question - one that's hardly going to get fair and objective consideration in out society.
Neither the right wing nor the left have the ability to be objective enough to look into this without coming to whatever conclusions they intend to reach.
It's a pity, because the implications are of an extinction level crisis impacting not only humanity, but all high order life on earth.
- doodlebugging 4y agoVery true. After reading that article and doing some initial research on the early internet I found a lot of people were worried that this indicator species(?) was signalling that waterways were in trouble, farm runoff was too heavily polluted by herbicides and nitrates and amphibians were disappearing, not just in the US but globally. It was an interesting article about a serious issue and for a short time it was in the news but then it just went away. Except it didn't.
- SoftTalker 4y ago> the implications are of an extinction level crisis impacting not only humanity, but all high order life on earth. You're right about the politics, but life is far more resilient than you're giving it credit for.
- yarg 4y ago> You're right about the politics, but life is far more resilient than you're giving it credit for. Life's a house of cards, and we're kicking the pillars - chemicals that have never before existed are interfering with the fundamental chemistry of life on earth. I have no doubt that in 100-million years there'll be some form of life descended from what's currently around on earth, and it will be staggeringly robust. But vertebrates? Mammals? I'm not so sure. Mass extinction events on earth are rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event We're in the sixth that we know of; we caused it - and we're not slowing down.
- bognition 4y ago> Life's a house of cards Life has picked it self back up after every major extinction level event.
- yarg 4y agoBut the dinosaurs didn't.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoBut their descendants. Chickens! So much so, that with our industrial help, there would be a layer of fossilized chicken bones, for our desendents to discover, if we wouldn't use almost everything from them for other (industrial) purposes. Maybe they'd call it the chicktropozene, or something ;-)
- Gigachad 4y agoLife in some form is, but life as we know it is not so resilient and we can very easily end up with a massively world which isn't so ideal.