[LINK] The End Is Nigh [Was: On the Day that you were born (UN Population Clock)]

[David Boxall]

On 10/11/2011 12:58 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> David Boxall wrote:
>
>> Humanity will be no great loss to the universe. The pity is that we look
>> like taking the rest of life on Earth with us.
>
> It would dreadfully difficult to wipe out all microbiotic life. It
> permeates
> the earth, from a few miles up in the atmosphere to the depths of the
> oceans.
> Once we are gone, the earth will heal itself as it has in the past and
> microbes
> will give rise to entire new trees of life. That's the way the cookie
> crumbles.
> We ain't nothing special.
> ...
Better minds than mine have warned against assuming that we cannot make 
such a mess of the world that it will no longer support life as we know 
it: 
<http://350orbust.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/carl-sagan-and-stephen-hawking-on-effects-of-global-warming-the-runaway-greenhouse-effect-on-venus-is-a-valuable-reminder-to-take-the-increasing-greenhouse-effect-on-earth-seriously/>.

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