• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    When life first boomed enough to trigger a multi million year long ice age, it bounced back and established a new homeostasis. The life that caused it did not go “extinct,” instead evolving to not be the architects of its own demise. When homeostasis is broken, evolution uses mass death and heavy handed selection pressures to reestablish it.

    Unless basically all large multicellular life goes extinct, humanity will continue. Industrial civilization will tear itself apart from environmentally triggered human conflict before it could ensure that.

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      There’s no guarantee mammals will fill the new niches. Personally, I think we’re going to have dinosaurs again. They like hot weather.

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        ur a goof. Like i said, you’re missing the trees focused on the forest. It literally doesn’t matter if humans live or not bc your foolish behind is dead either way