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Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Uninhabitable........for humans!
We only know of one rock in all existence that's habitable to humans or literally anything else. Relative to humans, yeah life finds a way cuz it's a lot more resilient than us; relative to the kinds of extremes the universe of capable of producing, life is SUPER fragile.
So... yes, humans are fucked, but so are a lot of other critters, and who knows where all the feedback loops we've unleashed will end after we're gone. Shit isn't going to just magically get better once we're gone.
Hopefully it'll stabilize, but there comes a point that even the most hardy of extremophiles can't survive, and if we cross that line, Earth becomes indistinguishable from every other lifeless rock in space.
Life in general will be fine. We've had many mass extinctions that kill off 95% of all life, but life...life finds a way.
Of course, humans won't be in the 95%, and a lot of animals are going to needlessly die, so womp womp...
I mean, hopefully. There are people that have driven drunk many times and been fine, but it only takes one incident to bring that trend to an immediate halt.
We have no way to tell if conditions will stabilize within the surviveability window of any specific critter. Nor can we claim all life will for sure be fucked - point is we don't know.
But no other lifeless rock in space has abandoned shopping malls....
And massive markdowns on the fashions you love!
Don't forget oceans chock FULL of PFOS!
There’s no reason to expect it to get that bad - humans will stop contributing to global warming long before extremophiles would be threatened.
I’m sure we’ll still have world teeming with life to remember us - jellyfish, fungi, and cockroaches
I don't expect it will get that bad; it's just within the realm of possibility. We can't predict shit with any certainty.