Comment by fooker
7 months ago
> The remaining animals and plants will converge on a new balanced state.
There's no guarantee that this be a stable equilibrium.
If it doesn't stabilize, we get mass extinctions. We have had five large ones and are rapidly moving towards the sixth ones by all accounts.
> are rapidly moving towards the sixth ones by all accounts
The scientific consensus isn't that we're "moving towards" a mass extinction. It's that we're deep into one, and accelerating.
"Current extinction rates are estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates [13][14][15][16][17] and are accelerating."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction