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Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says
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The empires will fall but the species will remain. We would have to kill the entire planet's ecology for humanity to go extinct, we're too good at adapting.
We're working on that. The methane hydrate problem is terrifying
Sure, but I'm unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean. Desertification of huge swaths not near the poles, ocean pH plummeting from carbonic acid causing a mass extinction of most plankton, algae, and the life that depends on them, and the end of countless evolutionary lines. But if there's a temperate zone in Antarctica, or even a swampy tropical jungle, there's gonna be humans eating snails and xylem for however long it takes something to start sequestering carbon again.
We bounced back from a 100,000 year bottleneck with a population of 1200. We'd seal that many in an underground cave complex with naught but lichen and crickets to eat before we rolled over and died out.
Not entirely. The wars over increasingly scarce resources (such as farmable land and water) will do a lot of the extermination as well.
Sure, but consider that North Sentinel Island has been mostly isolated for tens of thousands of years. 23 square miles. That's how small of a rock we can cling to. Resource availability is the big question mark of course, and the exact nature of global ecosystem collapse and the water wars can't be known exactly, but my money is on "at least one sustainable holdout" somewhere.
Hopefully they can eventually scavenge the good bits of our mountains of waste.
That is a possible outcome. But far from a desirable one.
There is so much more we (as a species) could be doing to prevent a mass extinction event.
But instead we've got our collective heads so far up our own asses that we can't even cooperate enough to do what could be the simplest things.
It's frustrating to see this disaster coming directly at us and being prevented from taking meaningful action by politicians who refuse to cooperate, by billionaires who hoard wealth and sculpt public opion toward self-destructive ends, by religions that gleefully anticipate their scriptures version of Armageddon.
The more you study geoscience the angrier you'll get about it all, trust me.