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Skymast's comment is killed but he's absolutely right. New species are born and discovered (note these two are distinct) everyday and we still ™ don't have a g
by carabiner 3y ago
Skymast's comment is killed but he's absolutely right. New species are born and discovered (note these two are distinct) everyday and we still ™ don't have a good idea of what net change is in species count. I do not mourn the loss of the 49 species of bacteria that died in shower this morning, or the 20 species of mosquito eradicated.
- margalabargala 3y agoThe net change is massively negative for complex life, which is what most people care about. If we sacrificed 1000 species of bird in exchange for 10 million new species of bacteria, that's not a win. Excluding single cell organisms, the number of species going extinct in a given year in any category outweigh newly discovered or born species by around 8x.