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> The remaining animals and plants will converge on a new balanced state. There's no guarantee that this be a stable equilibrium. If it doesn't stabilize, we
by fooker 1y ago
> The remaining animals and plants will converge on a new balanced state.
There's no guarantee that this be a stable equilibrium.
If it doesn't stabilize, we get mass extinctions. We have had five large ones and are rapidly moving towards the sixth ones by all accounts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
- mandmandam 1y ago> are rapidly moving towards the sixth ones by all accounts The scientific consensus isn't that we're "moving towards" a mass extinction. It's that we're deep into one, and accelerating. "Current extinction rates are estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates [13][14][15][16][17] and are accelerating." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction