Comment on One million years from now...

AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For sure.

  But tbf it’s still a bold assumption that afte only a million years biodiversity would rebound to the point to support (mega)fauna like that again.

  Hoping for the best.

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  • Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually the fauna comes back really quick. After only a hundred years when nothing is maintenaned the plants will cover most of our infrastructure.

    After probably 500 years most constructions are probably only hills.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, not extinct species.

      I don’t believe we will leave isolated, big, and diverse oasis of specimens to just repopulate vacant areas.

      We are well into a huge (and particularly very fast) mass extinction event, sure only a few headline megafauna species get press coverage, but the amount of invertebrates alone that go extinct and in contrast a single or a few species temporary takes its place in turn expediting the imbalance levels & collapsing entire ecosystems is staggering.

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      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Insect die offs really scare me, so many fruits and plants are pollinated by them, or things just up the food chain from them. Then I just can’t help imagining a chain of collapse from there.

        I think humans will be the last living things to go unless we engineer our own extinction early.

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  oh no, more pro-extinction on lemmy, fun…

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  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You need only look at how our species treats one another, despite claiming to know better, to understand why.

    If you’re proud of our species, good for you.

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    • GracchiBros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do think there’s something positive about being the only species we know of with the intelligence and knowledge developed over generations to even realize these things and much such judgements. The plants that filled the atmosphere with oxygen killing almost everything couldn’t know any better or do anything about it. Past species and humans before modern times changed their environments and caused extinctions without even knowing. And while we might not end up doing so, we do have the capabilities to do better.

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      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve thought about that and to me it makes it worse. We have glimmers of knowing better, of doing the right thing, just enough to demonstrate that we *can, * but 99 times out of 100 we don’t.

        You can’t get angry at a lion for following it’s genetic programming, it doesn’t have the capacity for introspection about its nature. Its sentient, but not sapient. We can know better, with our cognitive abilities combined with tools of historical recording most of us do know better, but when presented the chance to take either our share of the pie with our brothers and sisters, or to take the whole pie and leave them hungry, you know what we choose 99 times out of a hundred.

        The tragedy is knowing that we have the capacity to be a great people that accomplishes wonders together, but we still choose to fight one another for the biggest banana pile like impulsive beasts almost every time throughout recorded history. We refuse to learn. We refuse to heed the lessons of history for longer than a single generation. It’s maddening.

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