Extreme climate events and rising temperatures are threatening Earth’s inhabitants, ecosystems, and infrastructure with severe consequences
  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      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…

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        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.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      if we cross that line, Earth becomes indistinguishable from every other lifeless rock in space.

      But no other lifeless rock in space has abandoned shopping malls…