Unfortunately for nature we’re like cockroaches. You can kill the majority of humans with a big enough asteroid, but actually wiping us out while persevering vertebrate life is a tall order. Hell it was a tall order before we even got out of the neolithic.
I’m saying even humans with the ability to make pottery were able to survive in niches that our pests can’t even survive in, from the desert to the artic. We outcompete everything even without industrial technology and can survive on some pretty crazy diets. Invertebrate life could survive an extinction event that wipes us out, but I can’t imagine any vertebrate doing so (including the ocean ones).
Unfortunately for nature we’re like cockroaches. You can kill the majority of humans with a big enough asteroid, but actually wiping us out while persevering vertebrate life is a tall order. Hell it was a tall order before we even got out of the neolithic.
“We’re a virus with shoes.” – Bill Hicks
Fun fact: the Oxygen Catastrophe wasn’t a one-time event. It happened repeatedly in waves until life finally evolved a way to use the Oxygen.
When humans emerge from their bunkers, they’ll quickly rediscover nuclear weapons and greenhouse pollution.
Are we? We haven’t been around that long enough relative to the planet. We won’t be here in another billion years.
I’m saying even humans with the ability to make pottery were able to survive in niches that our pests can’t even survive in, from the desert to the artic. We outcompete everything even without industrial technology and can survive on some pretty crazy diets. Invertebrate life could survive an extinction event that wipes us out, but I can’t imagine any vertebrate doing so (including the ocean ones).
Self centered human.