• Hegar@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Yep, once cyanobacteria flooded the world with oxygen, everything that couldn’t hack it in an oxygen rich atmosphere died off never to return, and cyanobacteria and the chloroplast is still here, defining our world.

    As bad as we fuck things up, we’re better placed than many organisms to weather the consequences of our actions. Our numbers and harm done might go down for a while but like waves of the plague, we’ll adapt to upset the new equilibrium in time.