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What difference does that make? Why does the mode of the catastrophe matter? The examples I cited actually killed half the population at the time. Nothing si
by lisper 2y ago
What difference does that make? Why does the mode of the catastrophe matter? The examples I cited actually killed half the population at the time. Nothing since has even come close.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoIs that a bad thing? All other animals have population collapses from time to time and it redresses the balance. I don't see it as particularly catastrophic. Of course, now this reduces to how we define catastrophe, and we obviously have a difference. But I see a halving of the human population hardly a catastrophe at all, whereas the permanent extinction of species a much worse thing.
- lisper 2y ago> the permanent extinction of species a much worse thing Fair enough, but then I'll point you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events No matter how you slice it, these are far from the worst of times.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoFrom the chart. "Holocene extinction c. 10,000 BC – Ongoing Humans[3]" We are literally in an extinction event right now.
- hex3 2y ago[dead]
- lisper 2y agoSure. But not all extinction events are created equal. Compare the holocene with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin... or even: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e... BTW, humans would almost certainly not exist were it not for the KT event.