Oh it will, it’ll just take a really fucking long time after we’re gone.
We’re not destroying the planet or life. We’re destroying our own living conditions (along with a shitload of other animal’s living conditions). Life will make it.
We’re destroying a lot of life and radically changing the composition of the planetary surface.
Life will make it.
On the up side, we’re the sixth mass extinction event in planetary history. And - arguably - not even the worst of the lot.
On the down side, we are (as far as we are aware) the first organism that can anticipate its own demise and do something about it. And yet our own gnostic potential seems incapable of averting catastrophe. All we, as a population, seem capable of doing is shitposting our way into oblivion.
Life, uh, finds a way. The thing is, which life adapts to the new conditions is probably limited, and there’s only so many more billions of years to try another attempt to get off the rock. (Some will say 5 billion, but it’s much less than that since the Sun will start expanding slowly first before it reaches the red giant stage).
I do think life is possible all over the place, but the window of time it gets for each place can be very narrow. A close of false starts or resets and the opportunity to be more than simple life forms is lost.
Oh it will, it’ll just take a really fucking long time after we’re gone.
We’re not destroying the planet or life. We’re destroying our own living conditions (along with a shitload of other animal’s living conditions). Life will make it.
We’re destroying a lot of life and radically changing the composition of the planetary surface.
On the up side, we’re the sixth mass extinction event in planetary history. And - arguably - not even the worst of the lot.
On the down side, we are (as far as we are aware) the first organism that can anticipate its own demise and do something about it. And yet our own gnostic potential seems incapable of averting catastrophe. All we, as a population, seem capable of doing is shitposting our way into oblivion.
Life, uh, finds a way. The thing is, which life adapts to the new conditions is probably limited, and there’s only so many more billions of years to try another attempt to get off the rock. (Some will say 5 billion, but it’s much less than that since the Sun will start expanding slowly first before it reaches the red giant stage).
I do think life is possible all over the place, but the window of time it gets for each place can be very narrow. A close of false starts or resets and the opportunity to be more than simple life forms is lost.
Life will be fine. Multicellular complex life might be in trouble tho.