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Florida Meteorologist: ‘I Have Never Observed So Many of Earth’s Vital Signs Blinking Red'
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Obviously the dude is not a biologist... Earth is gonna be fine long term, the other species are gonna be fine long term. The only thing we're running into the ground is ourselves.
Edit: check out all these clowns below who have a human superiority complex so inflated that they believe the earth will die with us 😂🤡
The species driven extinct by climate change won't be fine
Have you heard of evolution or are you one of those loons that believe "god" placed a set number of species on the planet and that's all there will ever be? Asking for a friend.
Evolution works on very long time spans. Anthropomorphic climate change will be way too fast for species to evolve and adapt. I highly doubt all life will ever be wiped out on Earth, but we might lose 99% of current species with new species evolving over time. This is our dinosaur asteroid moment for sure.
And yet, life survived even the asteroid. It's arrogant as all hell to believe we have more destructive power than that asteroid. Or that we deserve to live on a planet we are destroying.
Absolutely noone ever claimed that global warming was going to wipe out life on earth
"earth's vital signs blinking red"
Your reading comprehension is competitive... amongst rocks.
We are living through a mass extinction event right now. We have driven hundreds of species extinct even before getting deeply into the effects of climate change so it's fascinating that you think that even more severe environmental change will harm no species at all.
You clearly love putting words in people's mouths. Utterly unrelated to what I said. Congrats on your irrelevance.
Why do you talk like this?
"Asking for a friend"
It's very "raises spork"
Doesn't matter what I say here, you trolls will downvote it. So have at it.
It's more to do with posting moronic shit, but you do you
Wtf are you talking about?
Earth may persist as a dead rock floating though space, but I'd argue that doesn't come close to 'fine'.
Kinda like saying if you get lost in the desert you'll be fine: sure your organs will fail, your muscles will turn to jerky, and you'll be very much dead: but your skeleton will remain for decades!! 🎉
Life is what makes Earth special, and we're on track to reducing life to extremiphiles. Hell, even those could be at risk - the problem with climate change is positive feedback loops, and who knows how far those will push. Even the most resilient of microbastards won't do too great when Earth is molten.
Extreme-case scenario, but whether that's what happens or we get some kind of miracle climate shift and Earth lives happily ever after, or anywhere in between, is roll of the dice.
This is pretty naive imo, the destruction we are responsible for has already driven numerous animals to extinction. You really think entire ecosystems collapsing doesn't involve other species dying too?
It's a metaphor.
Like when people say "The economy is in trouble", no one really cares about the economy itself. The economy will be fine. Even if it crashes by 90%, it's still an economy, right?
What we mean when we use these metaphors is, how the life of people living in these systems will be affected.
Maybe a better analogy to the title is the life support system of a spaceship. If that system flashes you with warning lights, you'll be worried, but not because the spaceship itself is in trouble. It will travel through space and time just fine, eons after it's passengers have suffocated.
A better way to phrase this, is that you believe humans deserve to live because of your own ego about your worth compared to the entire planet. Carry on.
That's maybe what you read, but not what I said. Putting words in mouths is a dishonest approach to conversation. Can we do better, please?
The idea was based on the assumption that one does not want humans to suffer.
Now when people talk about some 'vital signs' of a system in which humans live, be it economy, space ship or planet, it is usually meant and understood that they care about the wellbeing of the inhabitants, not about the state of the soulless system, even if that's what they literally say. It's a metaphor.