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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by inpdx on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:12AM (#35714952)
No other species has had this great of an impact on that many species. If we were wise and thoughtful, collectively we could both advance ourselves and allow the diversity to continue. So it's a shame we aren't.
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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by kevviiinn on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:18AM (#35715052)
Humans are notoriously short sighted
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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by larkost on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:32PM (#35716360)
Arguably cyanobacteria beat us to the punch a bit less than 2.5 billion years ago in the Great Oxidation Event, when they killed off much/most of the other life by producing a lot of oxygen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

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Re:Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by... by denton-scratch on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:59PM (#35716801)
The lifeforms they killed off were not very diverse, and not very interesting - mostly bacteria.
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