if only we can avoid pushing this planet into a runaway greenhouse effect, so that once humanity goes extinct, nature can recover - at this point, I would call that a win. :(
Yeah it will just undo millions of Years of evolution and drastically reduce biodiversity. But SOMETHING will survive.
Maybe post anthopocene extinction earth will just be algea, moss and cockroaches for a few hundred thousand years but after that … crabs and ants will reevolve to take over the world that is rightfully theirs!
All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.
no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run
I hope that this take is correct, but I am afraid that it may not be. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the planet was different in a lot of ways - and the thought of a human-made mass extinction event that also takes out a lot of mammals is quite depressing.
Advocates of capitalism are murdering us by ecocide.
“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” —Fredric Jameson, “Future City”
if only we can avoid pushing this planet into a runaway greenhouse effect, so that once humanity goes extinct, nature can recover - at this point, I would call that a win. :(
I’m not that worried about that. The earth has been a lot hotter in the past, and will again in the future.
Yeah it will just undo millions of Years of evolution and drastically reduce biodiversity. But SOMETHING will survive.
Maybe post anthopocene extinction earth will just be algea, moss and cockroaches for a few hundred thousand years but after that … crabs and ants will reevolve to take over the world that is rightfully theirs!
I said “runaway” greenhouse effect, but you probably don’t want to look it up, it’s scary.
All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.
no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run
I hope that this take is correct, but I am afraid that it may not be. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the planet was different in a lot of ways - and the thought of a human-made mass extinction event that also takes out a lot of mammals is quite depressing.