• ramble81
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    26 days ago

    Millions of years is still only 0.08% of the earth’s current age. Not to anthropomorphize the planet, but i really don’t think it and the rest of the nature will care in the long run. It’ll adapt and move on.

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      26 days ago

      That was my point.

      We’re a blip to the earth, as my mentor George Carlin said, a surface nuisance.

      To our living Earth, that is no time at all, but from our perspective and limited ability to fully appreciate scales like that, a million years might as well be infinity years.

      Humanity will be Lucky to be a sentence in the encyclopedia of life that started billions of years ago that will likely end when our sun begins to destabilize into a red giant in another couple billion.