In case anyone was curious, these are the boundaries:
Part of the problem with these posts is that they don’t really give anyone any actionable information.
It’s like a guy running out onto the deck of the Titanic every few minutes and shouting “We’ve got new novel research indicating how there aren’t enough lifeboats and the water is extremely cold”.
Part of the old school environmentalist movement was this theory of activism and engagement with the body politic. The idea was that you could actually form parties and join organizations and leverage time and money to avert pending ecological hazards.
But this shit is just… “Scientists have created a new kind of bar chart to explain that the future is bleak”. Which is both demoralizing and pointless. It’s information without a purpose. Like ringing a fire alarm in an oubliette.
Look out for those novel entities.
Nice, but day freshwater boundary gonna be stretched… a lot. By the unholy bastard child of nestlé and openai (opennestlai?).
I’m sure it’ll fix itself
Oh it will, it’ll just take a really fucking long time after we’re gone.
We’re not destroying the planet or life. We’re destroying our own living conditions (along with a shitload of other animal’s living conditions). Life will make it.
We’re not destroying the planet or life.
We’re destroying a lot of life and radically changing the composition of the planetary surface.
Life will make it.
On the up side, we’re the sixth mass extinction event in planetary history. And - arguably - not even the worst of the lot.
On the down side, we are (as far as we are aware) the first organism that can anticipate its own demise and do something about it. And yet our own gnostic potential seems incapable of averting catastrophe. All we, as a population, seem capable of doing is shitposting our way into oblivion.
Life, uh, finds a way. The thing is, which life adapts to the new conditions is probably limited, and there’s only so many more billions of years to try another attempt to get off the rock. (Some will say 5 billion, but it’s much less than that since the Sun will start expanding slowly first before it reaches the red giant stage).
I do think life is possible all over the place, but the window of time it gets for each place can be very narrow. A close of false starts or resets and the opportunity to be more than simple life forms is lost.
Life will be fine. Multicellular complex life might be in trouble tho.
“Naomi Wildman.”
“Don’t worry. My presence here is authorized.”
“By whom?”
“Mom. She thinks I need to learn more about Earth.”
“I see. And does studying this image increase your desire to go there?”
“Not really.”
I don’t have the energy to confirm whose post came first, and the points don’t matter anyhow. 😝
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