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No other species has had this great of an impact on that many species. If we were wise and thoughtful, collectively we could both advance ourselves and allow th
by inpdx 3y ago
No other species has had this great of an impact on that many species. If we were wise and thoughtful, collectively we could both advance ourselves and allow the diversity to continue. So it's a shame we aren't.
- kevviiinn 3y agoHumans are notoriously short sighted
- larkost 3y agoArguably cyanobacteria beat us to the punch a bit less than 2.5 billion years ago in the Great Oxidation Event, when they killed off much/most of the other life by producing a lot of oxygen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
- denton-scratch 3y agoThe lifeforms they killed off were not very diverse, and not very interesting - mostly bacteria.