🍋 (OP) replied with this 9 hours ago, 8 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,470,839
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I also have this feeling. However, after everybody dies, could it be good? Think about it, we’re not going to make every species go extinct, and there were several mass extinctions in the past. What if five or ten million years from now the earth looks like it did five or ten million years ago?
> I also have this feeling. However, after everybody dies, could it be good? Think about it, we’re not going to make every species go extinct, and there were several mass extinctions in the past. What if five or ten million years from now the earth looks like it did five or ten million years ago?
Think of the detritus. You’d need that long for all of the cities that burn attended, nuclear plant meltdowns, stored fuel and toxic waste leaking out of storage. Much of the planet would be a deadly junkyard for centuries.
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I guess the best thing with nuclear waste is just to put it back where it came from (deep underground). Plastic idk, that’s more of an issue. I remember reading somewhere years ago that apparently in the Pacific Ocean, there’s so much plastic waste that bacteria actually started evolving to be able to eat plastic.
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Sometimes I do feel like someday the only way to enjoy nature might be to go off to some planet light years away that had life but not intelligent life so you can enjoy some weird alien forest or something.
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I could be wrong but I think one of the reasons why there’s so much oil is most of it is actually from plants and when trees first evolved, bacteria couldn’t eat wood for a certain period of time so dead plant matter just piled up and then those ancient prehistoric forests became the oil that were burning now, which will probably never replenish itself. (Unless that’s totally wrong).
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From what I’m finding online it took 60 million years after trees evolved for bacteria to evolve the ability to eat it. So it just piled up for 60 million years and now we’re burning that in our cars. But it’s never going to happen again probably. So once the oil is gone it’s gone for good basically. (Ironically plastic is an oil product)
You know what? Yeah we’re screwed. This is unsustainable.