The Genesis quote isn’t wrong, Earth will be fine in the long run despite what we’re doing to it. Now humans being part of the equation once we’ve made it uninhabitable for our species is a different story, and I think she is incorrectly assuming that we will also “never cease”.
Earth will be fine in the long run despite what we’re doing to it.
What is it for Earth to be “fine in the long run”? We’re killing a huge number of other species too, with a million species currently in danger of extinction due to humans. We’re causing all kinds of ecosystem collapse and extinctions at 1000 times the natural rate. It took billions of years to get to where we are, and there’s limited time left for evolution: in 250 million years the Earth will be too hot for mammals, and in a billion years all the water boils away and it becomes a dead planet. We can expect our own species to be extinct long before that, but our impact on the rest of life on Earth, possibly for a good chunk of its remaining time, should not be underestimated.
The Genesis quote isn’t wrong, Earth will be fine in the long run despite what we’re doing to it. Now humans being part of the equation once we’ve made it uninhabitable for our species is a different story, and I think she is incorrectly assuming that we will also “never cease”.
What is it for Earth to be “fine in the long run”? We’re killing a huge number of other species too, with a million species currently in danger of extinction due to humans. We’re causing all kinds of ecosystem collapse and extinctions at 1000 times the natural rate. It took billions of years to get to where we are, and there’s limited time left for evolution: in 250 million years the Earth will be too hot for mammals, and in a billion years all the water boils away and it becomes a dead planet. We can expect our own species to be extinct long before that, but our impact on the rest of life on Earth, possibly for a good chunk of its remaining time, should not be underestimated.
this is not the first mass extinction event to happen. life will go on and thrive. humans are fucked tho.
… earth will be here long after we’ve all gone the way of the dodo.