Yes all life will perish, but the earth itself will continue.
Why would all life perish? From what I’ve heard and read about nuclear disaster exclusion zones, humans disappearing tends to make space for other forms of life that had previously been displaced by cities full of humans and such. To my understanding long time life probably won’t care about anything for the next few million years.
Short term many or most humans might die or suffer. I don’t think it’s easy to predict how fragile humankind is, civilization may crumble. I doubt all of humankind will be gone in a thousand years, though I wouldn’t bet against a semi “post apocalyptic” future.
Neato@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
It’s pedantry for the sake of being right. They care more about winning than the actual argument.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is why I detest the concept and celebration of “technically correct”. No, it’s not the “best kind of correct”, it’s being an asshole.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, in the example you’re responding to, many of the people aren’t doing the “technically correct” answer of, “microbial life will continue”.
They’re just morons who heard, “life finds a way” and assume humans will be fine.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 months ago
That’s the joke, though.
The character being quoted, from Futurama, is usually insufferable and often miserable.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I dunno, maybe. I mean, technically they were right but even when I agreed, and explained how while that’s correct it’s also beside the point, they didn’t like that either.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
It’s like talking about powers and saying “The square of 4 is 16” and they’ll bleat “Actually, a square is a shape” and you’re trying to find a way to tell them that their contribution is absolutely worthless and irrelevant to the topic.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 months ago
It’s not even pedantic. It’s that same logic you could use to say killing a person does no harm to them because their body still exists afterward.