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The genus Homo dates back nearly 2 million years.
by nkrisc 6mo ago
The genus Homo dates back nearly 2 million years.
- timschmidt 6mo agoYes. And virtually all of that time has been colder than average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m... Sometimes a great deal so. Sometimes less. But nearly always below average. For our whole existence. That's why the choice of wording struck me. You can zoom out a bit more and it just gets clearer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m... Further out and we're still one of the coldest periods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:All_palaeotemps.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m... We're ice-age dwellers. Always have been. I can both be alarmed at how quickly the ice age humanity has evolved within is ending, and find that a very funny way of phrasing it. These things don't conflict in me, though it seems triggering to some. People are downvoting me with moral conscience, but I'm just over here laughing at a funny conjunction of paleoclimate and word choice. :) People getting offended by it kinda makes it funnier.