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[–] 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

High temperatures don't preclude large lifeforms. Just ask the dinosaurs.

But you need the ability to adapt at speed and scale for the entire ecological colony. You can't rely on biomes that cater exclusively to a handful of apex predators.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The rate of change is faster than any in the planet's history, I don't have high hopes for many species surviving.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The planet has been undergoing the 6th global extinction event in its history for over 30,000 years. During this time period, humanity has flourished even as millions of other species have died out.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Sure, until we used fossil fuels to accelerate our growth to absurd numbers, killed most other large wild mammal species, and started pumping ancient buried carbon into the atmosphere at a rate exceeding any other co2 related extinction event in the planet's history.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Fertilizer has been at the heart of an enormous uptick in arable land and crop volume. That's the direct result of fossil fuel infrastructure.

    We are farther away from extinction than we've ever been.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Actually artificial fertilizer comes from the Haaber Bosch process, which uses fossil fuels to turn air into nitrogen.

    Every species in overshoot seems to be as far from extinction as it ever was directly before the population crash, lol.

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