• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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
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      2 years ago

      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
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        2 years ago

        Hard to beat the dominance of archosaurs on Earth for about 180 mio years. Humans are a blink of an eye compared to that.

        • EssentialCoffee
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          2 years ago

          As long as we don’t kill off the bunch beetles, we’ll be okay.