Good news boyz, it only takes 5-15 million years to fully recover biodiversity levels from mass extinction
Good news boyz, it only takes 5-15 million years to fully recover biodiversity levels from mass extinction
To put this into perspective, if Earth was a 40 years old person, this recovery is about a month an a half.
It's just a case of measles to Earth.
Yeah, this is why I'm not too worried. The biosphere will take it all in its stride, even with mass extinctions it'll recover in every way, just give it a few million years.
From a human perspective, especially that of a single lifetime, obviously there's a huge amount to worry about.
But on the grand scale of things? Everything's going to turn out just fine.
Being "not too worried" because the biosphere will eventually recover when billions of humans and other animals will be suffering in the meantime is a wild take, bud.
Life on earth isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but I happen to like a lot of the animals we're killing. Even if it's not the end, mass extinction still sucks.
The biosphere will take it all in its stride
Well, not this particular biosphere. Whatever can evolve to whatever conditions end up stabilizing will recover...although recover isn't the best word since it implies returning to the previous state. The Holocene has already been declared over, we're just in an abrupt transition now. RIP to everything else that the humans dragged into the gutter with them in their attempt to be a higher form of life.
Life will come back, maybe in similar levels of a new epoch of diversity in a hotter world, however given the time scale I think humans may have not only ruined their own environment but condemned Earth life to be definitely now tied to the lifetime of the Sun, as no life is ever going to get to a level to escape its final form.
Oh, that's alright then.