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Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I feel as though the assumption that humans had the ability to kill all complex life like some people suggest is exaggerating the significance of humans

It absolutely is. There are microbes that thrive at the bottom of the ocean in the boiling acidic conditions of hydrothermal vents. There is absolutely no way anything humans can do at this point would kill ALL life on the planet. There will absolutely be some specialist microbe somewhere that looks at whatever we did to the planet and says ‘yup, now is my time to shine!’.

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