True enough. But given that we are going to drive ourselves to extinction in a geological blink of an eye, it really didn’t do us that great. Should have evolved into a crab.
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can@sh.itjust.works 2 years agoI think we have a lot going for us.
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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 years ago
I mean, you can’t really say that we’re going to drive ourselves to extinction, until we’ve been driven to extinction. Most things people list as likely to do this, climate change, nuclear war, are things that could conceivably do so, but honestly aren’t likely to. Destroy civilization maybe, but that just takes disrupting supply lines hard enough. Extinction means nobody, anywhere on the planet survives, even if it’s some little pocket of people in some corner of the world whose climate is good after warming is considered and which isn’t a target of any nuclear arsenals, because in a number of generations such a little pocket can grow to repopulate the planet again. It’s not an impossible thing for sure, but killing off a species capable of surviving in almost any climate zone found on the planet, with the ability to manipulate the growth of it’s own food supply, and adapt new tools actively in response to problems within a single generation, is a difficult task.
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Crab…people?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Crab is the perfect form.
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Stormlight Archive moment
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Humana have been around for several million years. Clothing alone is what, 3.5 million years old?
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
At least 40,000 years, but more likely longer; the best estimate of when body lice diverged from head lice is ~107,000 years ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Shame we won’t make it.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Except that hubris.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
A lot going against us for sure.
Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Mostly us.