• tsonfeir@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Are we? We haven’t been around that long enough relative to the planet. We won’t be here in another billion years.

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      7 months ago

      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).