Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted
by akvadrako on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:29PM
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1) You'll notice I didn't put nuclear war in my list of existential threats. That's because it also will likely not cause human extinction.
2) We are probably already in a mass extinction event. That also has little change of causing human extinction - we're the most adaptable species this planet has ever seen.
Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted
by jbay808 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:45PM
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Did you read the article I linked? It's not talking about the extinction of rhinos, tigers and polar bears. It's talking about the mechanics of the end-Permian mass extinction. To quote Wikipedia:
"known colloquially as the Great Dying... approximately 252 million years ago. It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct."
Seriously, it's a good article and quite short. I think you'd find it interesting food for thought and I'm honestly interested to hear your response to it, not some cheap dismissals.
Edit: if you really don't have time to read the whole thing, at least let me know what you think of the figure on page 6
There are a lot of reasons such as whether food or water scarcity might trigger nuclear war. But the biggest reason is that it puts us into the territory of previous mass extinction events on Earth. This article does a good job of illustrating the worst possible outcome. It does belong up with the others on the existential threat scale.
http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...
Give it a read and let me know if you think industrial civilization could adapt to these conditions.