Earth have survived extinction events before. And it will survive them again.
We’re fucked, the Earth is still going to be here for billions more years.
Yeah, Earth will be fine. It’s got all the time in the world to recover, literally.
Someday paleontologists will discover doomer memes from the Pleistocene, the Cretaceous, the Permian, the Devonian, and the Ordovician all predicting the same thing: “this is it, the end!”.
Someday, they will discover the remains of dead archaeologists among remains of dinosaurs and will have to wonder if we lived at the same time
Silurian hypothesis: chronically online edition
I’m not so sure life on Earth could recover from global nuclear war.
But if we can avoid that then yeah we’re probably fine.
Life can absolutely recover. People do joke about it but cockroaches are ridiculously resilient. And so are tardigrades.
Crawl out through the Fallout baby
Even the most pessimistic models predict half of the biosphere surviving nuclear war.
Well that’s good to know, in an odd-feeling sort of way - it’s reassuring info within the context of a situation which I would never want to happen in the first place.
Earth (and life) will be around long after humans have destroyed themselves.
This is the only thing that makes me happy
“The Earth is fine. People are fucked.”
- George Carlin
Every time. Every time when its a meme or article about the “end of the world”, every time someone, maybe more than just one person, just has to make this profound statement.
This is how they look after pressing send:
*After a small subset of wealthy humans kill us all.
Don’t tease me like that
“And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone.” - Sara Teasdale
Oh stop talking dirty, I’m getting exited over here
Not comforting. All that is left is creatures eating each other in a circle, not much good.
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Three bullets would solve most of the world’s problems. Okay, maybe a few more, but you get the idea.
Is this how I find out the nukes were launched?
Only if you are constantly refreshing lemmy. Otherwise, no, you will find out before reading here.
What if lemmy is the only website I use?
How can i keep hearing about people close to me and around me dying of cancer young, yet these guys are still alive and going
Boomers man, the lead that made them retarded kills the cancers they created
All they had to do is sit at a gas station until rich, leech of their parents, exploit the younger population, and gauge housing.
They also had food and air regulation. What would they be dying from?
Ligma.
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We don’t need to care, Jesus is coming back anyway. – MAGAs, probably
My mom is like this. Anything that is bad for the world instantly becomes a problem Jesus will fix when he returns. One thing I like to counter this with is: in the bible God had all his followers do all the work to fix things, so doesn’t that just mean you’ll be spending the end of the world cleaning up this mess?
Evangelicals really are like this.
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But they’re coming back (allegedly)
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“The democrats are destroying the planet”
-the American left
Trump’s hands are too large, and they don’t have large bruises or tanning spray.
Those guys (like us) are only existent for the blink of a moment. No matter how important they seem today, in death all are equal and the planet and people will still be around long after they’re gone
If theres a shared afterlife theres gonna be a lot of people hanging around waiting for them
shared afterlife
oh dear god no, please send me to the void thank you
Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go
Earth will wash its hands of us, and life will continue. Even if we do cause extreme damage to the planet, and much of life is wiped out somehow, there’s still plenty of time left for another advanced civilization (or two, or three) to eventually arise and possibly be much more successful than we’ve been.
However, I do wonder if the competitive nature of life on Earth, and possibly everywhere in this universe, makes inevitable that every “intelligent” species eventually wipes itself out.
Life is one choice after another, every minute of every day we make choices. And, every choice is locked in the second we make it, we can’t go back in time and change it. All of us can look back at past choices and think, ‘what if I’d chosen differently at that point?’, but we only get one life, and we only get one path through that life. And, life is short, we only see a tiny fraction of the whole picture. Plus, our view of the past is murky at best, even for things that happened within our lifetimes, let alone long before. Our view of the future is non-existent, for every correct prediction there are millions of incorrect ones--no one knows what’s going to happen. Live your life, do your best every second, and you’ll get through it, one way or the other–time doesn’t stop.
what did those fuckers do again?
Fucked us all.
Life will be fine, humans are fucked.
Does humanity need to take the rest of the planet down with them?
