• Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
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    Kind of, I guess. Depends on if there any animals larger than a cat left after the temperature change stops and levels off.

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      High temperatures don’t preclude large lifeforms. Just ask the dinosaurs.

      But you need the ability to adapt at speed and scale for the entire ecological colony. You can’t rely on biomes that cater exclusively to a handful of apex predators.

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          The planet has been undergoing the 6th global extinction event in its history for over 30,000 years. During this time period, humanity has flourished even as millions of other species have died out.

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            Sure, until we used fossil fuels to accelerate our growth to absurd numbers, killed most other large wild mammal species, and started pumping ancient buried carbon into the atmosphere at a rate exceeding any other co2 related extinction event in the planet’s history.

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      Depends if we can adapt them quickly enough to survive.

      Brazil has been dismantling our biotech sector for 20 years now, so I’m not optimist, but YMMV.

      Anyway, I’m more optimist on avoiding problem than on dealing with it.