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> 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 - ch
by 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 ;-)