• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    We should care about all the species on earth. We have an interconnected food chain that is currently collapsing, enough of it goes, and we won’t even be able to grow crops.

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      1 month ago

      Nah, we’re strutting around like we’re the first mass extinction event the planet’s ever seen. The K-T asteroid didn’t worry itself with random moths, why should we?

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        It’s the first mass extinction event caused by one of the affected species.

        Edit: It’s the first mass extinction event knowingly and intentionally caused by one of the affected species.