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    22 hours ago

    We did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.

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      16 hours ago

      Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.

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        1 hour ago

        well, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that.

        that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.

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        Can earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like

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          14 hours ago

          So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!

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          13 hours ago

          The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours ago

      WOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME!

      (2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)

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      16 hours ago

      Change has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.