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Scientist warn 1 billion on track to die from climate change.
(www.sciencealert.com)
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It only took 250 years since the industrial revolution to utterly doom our world.
Oh, our world will be fine, it's not the Earth's first mass extinction event. We - and a lot of flora and fauna we depend on - are really fucked though.
I hate seeing this take repeated. Just because there have been other mass extinction events doesn't mean the earth will be fine this time. If we fuck things up bad enough it will cause a runaway greenhouse effect. At which point the earth will not be fine, because it will be Venus 2.0. Additionally if we kill ourselves off but somehow fall short of that point, who cares if the earth will be fine in our absence? As far as we're aware we are the only sapient life in the universe. This dismissive, humanity hating attitude that its fine if we die off because the planet won't literally cease to exist, is so dumb. How about if we just be better instead of going extinct?
I agree in general, but there is physically not enough CO2 on this planet to turn it into Venus. So the planet is safe in that regard. It's going to get tough for a few hundreds of thousands of years (just a blink of an eye for the planet), then a new equilibrium will emerge.
Brought https://www.poetry.com/poem/384/optimist to mind.
It’s an interesting mass extinction event, too. Have we ever seen one species balloon to such predominance? Humans are like 80% of mammalian biomass on the planet. Definite loss of biodiversity. I wonder if it’s a loss of biomass too.
Hard to beat the dominance of archosaurs on Earth for about 180 mio years. Humans are a blink of an eye compared to that.
As long as we don't kill off the bunch beetles, we'll be okay.
Man we still fucked it all up though
"Overpopulation"? It's infinite growth and inefficient distribution.
Where do you think does the "overpopulation" come from?
So... in your mind it's for sure we are actually alien in origin?
I think they meant we're from Central Africa and technically an invasive species anywhere else in the world.
I thought invasive implied a species was moved by another. I don't think a species can be invasive just for moving north or something. Humans moved themselves gradually over time.
A quick search defines invasive species as a type of introduced species, which is outlined as
So I'd say that technically they are, but even more to the point it seems like the invasive species definition is very human centric (an alien cannot create an invasive species?)
Obviously this is a super semantically oriented discussion but I don't think it's a stretch to say human in this context really refers more to the role. Humans can control other species in that way, like an extra terrestrial also likely could have.
I'm not saying I agree with the idea, I'm just looking for a way humans could be "invasive"
They adapted the definition to include causing economic or environmental harm because NERDS kept pointing out that all species are either constantly invading new territory or in the process of going extinct.
Are you really logged into the fediverse right now using the word NERD in an accusatory manner?
I'm one of the nerds that does it.
Step off, DORK.
Lol the gloves really coming off now
No, because hundreds of thousands of years of migrations led my ancestors elsewhere. That's not what invasive means.
Lol yes if I'm not full on agent-from-the-matrix "humans are a virus" that means I'm a buffoon incapable of introspection. What's definitely not the case? You are certainly not a jaded weirdo who isn't particularly good with words and is looking to shit on humans as a species. Yep definitely not that.