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In reply to the discussion: No more NYT [View all]hunter
(38,303 posts)17. I'm a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist by inclination and much formal training.
Our celebrated world civilization is a peculiar layer of trash in the geologic record. The anthropocene is real. We can't change that.
This planet has seen many innovative and disruptive species come and go. We humans are not the first and we won't be the last.
I don't expect we humans will be around a 100,000 years from now. If we are lucky our intellectual offspring, as dust in the winds of this solar system, will remember us.
Much more likely we end up dead dirt that will never be sifted, eternally forgotten.
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This isn't an issue about which there is legitimately a diversity of opinion
Spider Jerusalem
May 2017
#4
Stephens isn't a climate scientist and lacks the educational background to debate
pnwmom
May 2017
#44
He's debating the CAUSES of climate change and how much human activity is a factor. n/t
pnwmom
May 2017
#51
I'm a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist by inclination and much formal training.
hunter
May 2017
#17