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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you be more specific about “the world” and “continuing to exist” because in all of these comments it seems like people think it’s easily going to return to some mythical Edenic paradise, just give it a few hundred years, and - no.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Being more specific, I basically mean object permanence. It won't cease to exist without humans. Even that mythical Edenic paradise is an anthropocentric concept. Nothing like that existed for the majority of the earth's history, nor did anything like it exist in most regions of the planet. Most known life is optimized for environments that are not particularly human-safe.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I thought evidence existed that most of the earth was tropical, for lack of a better word, in . . dinosaur . . . times?

Hey mon, that sounds irie for I an I. Eh, hold the dinosaurs.