This is hilarious and so immediately telling of our current situation. You know what else is objectively true? You are comparing a completely random event on cosmological scale, with human made global warming. Which we could solve, but aren’t gonna. Because that makes economy go bad.
I am not discussing further, you are obviously hiding from a(ny) responsability
a nice reminder that the planet is gonna be just fine
Planet is gonna be fine pf
I’m just echoing George Carlin’s bit: “the planet is fine; the people are fucked”. There’s almost nothing that people can do that could possibly be worse than the Permian extinction or the Chicxulub impact. Regardless of what people do, the planet will be fine. The planet has survived far worse and come out just fine.
Whatever we do to combat climate change, it isn’t for the planet. It’s for the people.
Just as if there were a Cretaceous space program, redirecting the asteroid wouldn’t have been for the planet. It would have been for the dinosaurs. The planet was fine, and it made way for us.
Just a reminder that species do go extict, but these flowers are not a new species. This is not really creation. To be fair it could lead to some in the future. Evolution of new species takes some time.
I was thinking more about the new bloom as a creation/rebirth metaphor, not that the plant itself is some new genetic mutation. I apologise, I likely wasn't entirely clear with my navel-gazing.
No, earth is doing what it has always done. Responding to change during an extinction event. Life has caused an extinction event in the past during the great oxygenation event. The only difference this time is that the life-form causing the extinction event (humans) are aware of what is happening.
I am not happy about any of this, it is a tragedy caused by humans.
But the earth will recover in time, geological time. Life on earth will continue. It just won't be the same species that were here before. Whether humans make it through all this is uncertain. The cyanobacteria that caused the oxygenation still exist but only in tiny numbers compared to when they also dominated the planet.
The planet has survived sudden and dramatic climate shifts before.
For example, the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs caused years or decades of impact winter. The planet survived fine. The non-avian dinosaurs didn’t, but the planet did.
That comment isn’t saying that what’s going on now is a normal cycle, but rather the natural response to a non-normal event.