Earth (and life) will be around long after humans have destroyed themselves.
*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
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
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But they’re coming back (allegedly)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
“The democrats are destroying the planet”
-the American left
Does humanity need to take the rest of the planet down with them?
You’re missing a few billion faces but ok.
Also GTFO with your political shitposts
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d’aaawwww, look, it thinks it’s in charge of “shitposts”!
So cute
