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hunter

(38,310 posts)

2. My formal training in evolutionary biology keeps me sane.

Reply to AZProgressive (Original post)

Sun Jul 3, 2022, 07:10 PM

Jul 2022

A few million years from now our civilization is little more than a curious layer of trash in the geologic record.

Our biological or intellectual progeny may or may not be around to see that.

We can start making those choices now.

It's most likely we humans are yet another flash-in-the-pan soon-to-be-extinct disruptive species in the long history of earth. But it doesn't have to be that way.

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Climate: Even briefly overshooting 2C will cause permanent damage [View all] AZProgressive Jul 2022 OP

One of the reasons I want to be healthy as long as possible is to watch, on TV Eliot Rosewater Jul 2022 #1

My formal training in evolutionary biology keeps me sane. hunter Jul 2022 #2