Erik AblesonJust bringing this one back up again. On the nose.
Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia
✨buff dog himbo✨@erik yeah but we're ALSO kiling nature. Yeah, something will be here after we're gone. But we're factually making the planet uninhabitable in a longterm sense for many species ifbanimals & plants. We know for sure that our activity is driving coutless species to extinction, disrupting delicate earth systems such as the Atlantic Meriodonal Overturning Circulation, a huge currentbin the atlantic which could collapse as soon as early 2030s.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-timing/index.html
@erik like all this comic means is that the literal planet itself will still be here when we nuke the entire thing. Yeah, babe, it's a rock. But it has not ""survived"" worse than we can do. Earth systems don't go back to the way they were once cstastrophically disrupted, they change entirely. Masses go extinct. The compositions of the atmosphere & oceans change. This comic just gives this impression that climate change is trivial & only affects humans in the long term & thats not fucking TRUE.
punIssuer@itsmeholland @erik I think it's spot on. The planet has changed more already than we are inducing right now. There have been many mass extinction events, where many species died out completely. But life as a whole, always finds a way, and comes back adapted to the changed environment. Just imagine the paradise bacteria find themselves in, when they finally evolve to digest the microplastics we littered all over the planet
inj4n@punissuer @itsmeholland @erik five or so near-extinction-of-life events so far in the fossil record. There is plenty of reads on this topic. I stumbled upon "The Ends of the World" - nice reading, if you can use nice in relation to extinction at all.
Mu@itsmeholland @erik I mean, you're right in that the biosphere will be very disrupted, and yes it will change in many ways, but life will go on, and change is part of life. The comic doesn't say that there won't be scars.
Life managed to survive snowball Earth, and the oxygenation of the atmosphere, it'll survive us.
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼Those were my thoughts as well. If all these things stop (or even change dramatically) our beloved planet will no longer be able sustain any life 😢
I am concerned about the rotation of earth's core, and about the impact of the changed water distribution on Earth's wobble,