PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to California’s fire

Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link... by zeristor on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:47AM (#18459158)

Humans have only been around for 20,000 years or so, I imagine the forests were evolving fine before them.

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Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link... by tome on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:06AM (#18459288)

You're off by at least a factor of 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens#Age_and_speciatio...

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Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link... by enimodas on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:11AM (#18459314)

But the forests are in America, for which is he is ~correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas#Chr...

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Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link... by tome on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:11AM (#18459799)

Ah, good point!

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Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link... by jaggederest on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:54AM (#18459209)

You drastically underestimate the rapidity of catastrophe as an evolutionary forcing function. Many or most of the trees in these areas are now not merely tolerant to, but dependent on (apparently anthropogenic) fire in order to reproduce.

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