In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth

[Dragonfli]

15. This world has witnessed and endured several extinction level events, planets do not care about

big brains or big bodies, it simply endures events that often radically change it's environment, each time any lifeforms that can not live in the new environment die off, there have been times when countless species have died off. We are no exception.

The planet will not even notice our passing, as I doubt it noticed the passing of other now extinct species (unless of course one believes in a Gaia consciousness in which case it may applaud our exit from the stage)

Whatever is left will have to survive a much hotter world with far fewer places where plant life exists, not to mention being capable of breathing much larger amounts of carbon gasses in the air. Big brains or not, we do not have the time to evolve our way out of this one.

The oceans are even changing for the worse, soon many species will be unable to survive there (coral is already dying off at an alarming rate for instance).

The only chance our big brains can keep our species alive is to maintain self sustained mini-biospheres perhaps in domes or some other method to avoid the actual new environment, such will also need replenish able water and space to grow food in, and elaborate filtration systems to obtain breathable air,

I doubt we have the time to produce many such enclosed environs, and even if we do, our numbers will be quite few and isolated from the rest of the world.

This scenario is based solely on my laymen's knowledge on the subject, but I doubt I am far off from the reality.

I also doubt such environs will be built at all, and if the are, they will be very few and we will be an endangered species according to accepted numbers.