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We survived this long by dominating everything else or killing it.
Yeah, and we're starting to really fuck ourselves with that approach on a global scale
I mean, not the first global extinction caused by dominating species fucking up the ecosystem.
On the other hand, photosynthesis at least turned up to be useful for supporting the aerobic ecosystem. I'm not sure the global warming will miraculously cause another type of organism to evolve.
What other global extinction was caused by a dominating specie exactly?
The Oxygen Extinction. Photosynthesis is one hell of a drug
the Great Oxidation Event is typically not counted among conventional lists of "great extinctions"
The whole article talks about it as not being a certainty, but still, thanks for at least backing what you're saying, although it's not a "dominating specie" contrary to what you said.
Dunno, but one cat, one cat SOLO, once caused extinction of entire species singlehandedly. Imagine what letting more than one cat outdoors can do.... I come from a country where cats are not native. Probably different if cats are part of your normal biomass.
Source and also, that's not global
That's working out so well for us with the 6th mass extinction well underway.