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It's useful to distinguish things that are made with human influence and things that aren't, and it can be done without value judgments (one is superior or infe
by grog454 4y ago
It's useful to distinguish things that are made with human influence and things that aren't, and it can be done without value judgments (one is superior or inferior). It's useful because of the disproportionate effect of synthetic things vs. natural things. No species prior to humans had the ability to obliterate all life on earth.
- dcow 4y agoIs life natural?
- LesZedCB 4y agoinsufficient data for meaningful answer
- alexvoda 4y agoOn the contrary, some species have already obliterated most other life on earth namely cyanobacteria during the great oxigenation event. Possibly others have done the same. They certainly did not care at all about the destruction they caused. All of this was perfectly "natural". That of course does not mean we should follow their example. It just means that "natural" is not a useful term.
- grog454 4y agoThis is still a far cry from a global nuclear winter or a deliberately redirected asteroid, or any other number of things that only humans are capable of.
- alexvoda 4y agoThe Great Oxigenation Event is a terraforming level event. We are not yet capable of such a large scale manipulation. Nuclear winter is at most comparable to a supervolcano or an asteroid impact. Also, if you consider asteroids to be natural and their orbits to be natural then "nature" is already plenty capable of playing cosmic billiards. Or do you want to restrict nature to just biology?