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[–] xT1TANx@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It only took 250 years since the industrial revolution to utterly doom our world.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Man we still fucked it all up though