• Weslee@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      In the grand scale of the universe we aren’t even a blip, any “permanent” damage we cause will be reversed over hundreds of thousands or millions of years after we’ve wiped ourselves out.

      And even if there was some kind of damage that couldn’t be reversed, the next cycle of life would just adapt to whatever the issue is

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        6 months ago

        I mean the earth has already survived having the first moon crash into it, as well as a giant meteor that caused an ice age. We have t quite gotten to that level, yet.

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        6 months ago

        It’s something people don’t realize. We may be a scourge on the Earth, but we’re still nowhere even near the top of the list of worst things to happen to this planet.

        As the other reply brought up, Theia crashing into Earth. Flood basalt events. The Chicxulub impact.

        We may be able to cause some real awful shit, but we still are nothing compared to what the forces of nature can produce. And just to clarify, I’m not saying this to in any way downplay the seriousness of climate change, or that we should do nothing about it.