• Nudding@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Since our first steps 250,000 years ago, we have driven 70% of all species to extinction. We are equivalent to a super volcano or meteor. An extinction level event. Hopefully we have fucked the climate hard enough to permanently erase ourselves from the biosphere in a few hundred years. Hopefully in a few thousand or million, earth will find balance again.

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      8 months ago

      Based on our sun’s life cycle, it’s not likely.

      Even if all emissions stopped tomorrow for good, temperatures would continue to rise, our climate would continue to destabilize, and the mass extinction event currently underway would continue.

      Like your comment says, we have likely fucked the climate enough that we’ll probably be gone within a couple hundred years.

      The problem is, we’ve killed off so many species and damaged our biodiversity to such an extent, that by the time biological life could evolve to a similar level of biodiversity like we once enjoyed, our sun will already be expanding enough that earth has become uninhabitable.

      We did it guys!

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        8 months ago

        Oh well, hopefully we don’t spread to other planets in the mean time.

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          8 months ago

          We won’t. Building self-sustaining colonies on non-habitable planets is so hard that it’d take us hundreds of years to pull it off, and we simply don’t have the time.