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Sorry, If we didn't get there yet I think our "destruction inertia" is too big to stop on time for this environment that currently exists. I bet you that every

by cfontes 13y ago

Sorry, If we didn't get there yet I think our "destruction inertia" is too big to stop on time for this environment that currently exists. I bet you that every single one of us here that like outdoors and are 20+ can remember some animal that we can't find anymore as easy as we used to. That must means something! I am not sure what, but it doesn't look good. For me the marker are sea horses. I been diving since very young and I can remember seeing them close to the south of my country like a pest. Several at once. Now it's been more than 10 years since I saw the last one. The thing is... Humans will survive. Nature made us way to good at that. The problem is that we will probably be living in a blue and green empty desert. Another point it that Earth will also survive us... So in the long run, Life as a entity is mostly safe. We are just going to be another event of mass extinction in the history of this planet. Evolution must be so proud :D But this is just my IT/Biologist point of view.

crag 13y ago
"Another point it that Earth will also survive us... So in the long run, Life as a entity is mostly safe. We are just going to be another event of mass extinction in the history of this planet. Evolution must be so proud " A couple of million years is piss from the planets point of view. And in those millions of years we will evolve (despite what certain religions say). Even the mass extinction of the dinosaurs resulted in birds (among other things). We are all part of this world. And life goes on. No matter what. The question is what will our impact have on a future us? What will life be like say in 10,000 years? Hell, even 5,000 years?
- Crito 13y ago
  > "And in those millions of years we will evolve (despite what certain religions say)." It is possible that we will do much more than just evolve. Normally organisms change over extremely long periods of time through 'natural' processes but humans uniquely have insight into the mechanism of how this happens. We may, in the future, develop the ability (and desire) to take things into our own hands. Just starting it out nice and slow, we could 'finish the job' in a few cases. Knock out wisdom teeth once and for all (somewhere between 9 and 30% of people are missing some or all of them anyway). No real reason to wait around a few dozens to hundreds of thousands of years for those to finish disappearing if we can do it ourselves.

by cfontes 13y ago

crag 13y ago

"Another point it that Earth will also survive us... So in the long run, Life as a entity is mostly safe. We are just going to be another event of mass extinction in the history of this planet. Evolution must be so proud " A couple of million years is piss from the planets point of view. And in those millions of years we will evolve (despite what certain religions say). Even the mass extinction of the dinosaurs resulted in birds (among other things). We are all part of this world. And life goes on. No matter what. The question is what will our impact have on a future us? What will life be like say in 10,000 years? Hell, even 5,000 years?

Crito 13y ago
> "And in those millions of years we will evolve (despite what certain religions say)." It is possible that we will do much more than just evolve. Normally organisms change over extremely long periods of time through 'natural' processes but humans uniquely have insight into the mechanism of how this happens. We may, in the future, develop the ability (and desire) to take things into our own hands. Just starting it out nice and slow, we could 'finish the job' in a few cases. Knock out wisdom teeth once and for all (somewhere between 9 and 30% of people are missing some or all of them anyway). No real reason to wait around a few dozens to hundreds of thousands of years for those to finish disappearing if we can do it ourselves.