Human Brain Enthusiast1d ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116346848141590494

People like to forget that fighting climate change is about _saving human lives_ and not about saving Earth.

Even if it's 20 degrees higher or 20 degrees lower on average, Earth will do fine, life will do fine, nature will be fine—but humans won't be fine.

Show threadLilly Hunter1d ago
@thomasfuchs Um, I don't think nature will be fine with a 20ºC increase - that would likely lead to mass species die-off, both flora and fauna.
Show threadHuman Brain Enthusiast1d ago

@LaChasseuse there were multiple points in the last 500 million years alone when the global temperature was >20ºC than today

before that fluctuations were even more extreme (but life wasn't as highly evolved yet)

(Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705)

Show threadLilly Hunter1d ago
@thomasfuchs Well yeah. Not saying it would be the first die-off ever. After all, we lost both the megafauna and the dinos.
I hope I won't be alive to see the birds falling out of the trees and small dead mammals on the forest paths.
Show threadJohn Maxwell1d ago
@LaChasseuse @thomasfuchs We won't. We'll go first.
Show threadHuman Brain Enthusiast

@jmax @LaChasseuse
I would assume that birds also start migrating and relatively quickly evolve new species better adapted.

Some have already started to.

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