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[–] 1 point 2 days ago

That's definitely a possibility. I'd guess that once we're gone, things will improve quite a lot, but I don't know enough to say that with any real confidence.

What I do know is that life is an incomprehensibly rare exception to the rule. Whether the damage we do is enough to nudge Earth back into the rule, we don't know. But it is the norm, and we're definitely not treating life as the rarity that it is. Even the extremophiles have their limit.

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