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In reply to the discussion: No more NYT [View all]Caliman73
(11,690 posts)The planet has been around for 4.6 billion years. It has been baked, flooded, frozen, gotten the shit knocked out of it by asteroids and comets, been a carbon dioxide filled greenhouse, a sulfur dioxide filled wasteland, and much more.
What needs to be saved are our delicate asses. Humans, other animals, and plants can only survive if our environment is within a certain range. We are knocking it out of the range of habitability much faster than it might have done naturally. What we do is to save us, not this metal cored ball wrapped in molten rock, with a little bit of water and a tiny mantle of rock and some miles of gasses that allow us to exist. The planet will be fine in another few hundred thousand years, a geological blink of an eye. We will be gone in a century or two if we do not act to save our own asses now.