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> so it altered the environment The motorway was not a natural occurrence, and neither cars or trucks evolved naturally. Humans went there and installed a limi
by rbanffy 3mo ago
> so it altered the environment
The motorway was not a natural occurrence, and neither cars or trucks evolved naturally. Humans went there and installed a limited fix for the destruction they caused in the first place.
- infogulch 3mo agoI put a path in my garden so I can continue to maintain the garden, and walk around and enjoy it. But oh no, my daisies are wilting because they're too close to the path. So I adjust the path, raise the bed a little bit, and add a border, and they're happy after a little bit of water. Totally normal gardener behavior.
- wredcoll 3mo agoAre volcanos natural occurrences? Meteors? Earthquakes floods and fires? Are humans natural? It's a pointless distinction, "nature" is plenty fully of destruction and extinction without humans ever being involved.
- rbanffy 3mo agoI’m sure the current mass extinction, which seems to have started at the same time a climate change, which itself started more or less when we learned how to dump unprecedented amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are causally related.
- wredcoll 3mo agoMy point isn't that they're unrelated, my point is that mass extinctions aren't unprecedented.