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Humans are really good at causing mass extinctions - just look at how we've literally decimated the planet's biodiversity since the dawn of man! That's a lot o
by dymk 4y ago
Humans are really good at causing mass extinctions - just look at how we've literally decimated the planet's biodiversity since the dawn of man!
That's a lot of new space for new lifeforms to specialize in.
- Waterluvian 4y agoBut to our narcissistic displeasure, the biosphere acts on a very different time scale. But points to us for a world record pace speedrun on the downturn side of it. It’ll eventually bloom again once we’re done here.
- rapind 4y agoThe biggest brain fart of humanity is our tendency towards monoculture (for scale). Nature is very obviously showing us how to sustain an ecosystem and yet in our incredible hubris we’re like “nah, we got this”. We just want to swim upstream for the hell of it.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI think one of our greatest flaws (and possibly main reason we are here today) is that we’re so self-centered. Why do we monoculture if it will kill us long-term? Because it benefits us short-term. (And hey, maybe that gives us runway to solve the long-term problem).
- XorNot 4y agoNature doesn't try and do anything. Nature is constantly trying to murder everything around it. The most lethal diseases to man are natural, and often common skin bacteria which everyone carries. There's a viral form of cancer which is wiping out the Tasmanian Devil right now, just because. Nature and evolution has no plan and no morality, it has survivors and a balanced ecosystem is a cold war stalemate.
- rapind 4y agoNature is teaching us how to survive by trying to constantly murder us and everything else if you prefer. So we can gain knowledge by seeing what works for other surviving species around us.