• Apollo42@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Overemphasizing the death of all life on the planet?

    Don’t worry mate, life is resilient and will endure.

    Humanity, not so much.

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      5 months ago

      Sure, except for all the species for which we’ve caused extinction.

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      5 months ago

      You’re wrong about which part survives. If anything does, it’s literally not even metaphorically humans and anything we deem important to us. Everything else is what gets the axe lol.

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        5 months ago

        How can I be wrong about which part survives?

        Life will go on, maybe not humanity but life will endure. If I was wrong and humanity survives, surely life would also have survived?

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          5 months ago

          Then you’ve missed the entire point of the original saying. It insinuates humanity will be extinct but some little rodent will survive. Or a lizard, or insects, etc.

          Humanity is too good for anything the earth will ever throw at it short of a supervolcano. Extrasolar threats are about the closest thing that could take us out and we are A-OK as far as radiation bursts from nearby exploding stars go. That just leaves asteroids large enough to turn the entire crust into molten rock. In which case all life except potentially the tiniest deep in the crust or reintroduced through contaminated space materials will survive.

          Humanity will survive the rest. Us poors might not, but humanity will lol.