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Well the Holocene extinction event we are currently causing rivals the destructive power of supervolcanoes and asteroids in the number of species driven to exti
by moffkalast 3y ago
Well the Holocene extinction event we are currently causing rivals the destructive power of supervolcanoes and asteroids in the number of species driven to extinction.
Every time a species becomes so well adapted that it takes over the entire biosphere, it effectively wipes out most everything else. When land plants first evolved they did the opposite of what we're doing, turned all the CO2 into oxygen and killed 85% of all life.
- namaria 3y ago> When land plants first evolved they did the opposite of what we're doing, turned all the CO2 into oxygen and killed 85% of all life That was billions of years before land plants or land anything. The feat was accomplished by cyanobacteria, the first photosynthesis capable organisms on Earth. And they were blue...