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   Lilly Hunter (lachasseuse@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 09:54:35 JST Lilly Hunter

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Well yeah. Not saying it would be the first die-off ever. After all, we lost both the megafauna and the dinos.
   I hope I won't be alive to see the birds falling out of the trees and small dead mammals on the forest paths.

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     Lilly Hunter (lachasseuse@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 04:36:45 JST Lilly Hunter

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Um, I don't think nature will be fine with a 20ºC increase - that would likely lead to mass species die-off, both flora and fauna.

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     can (can@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 04:49:27 JST can

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Earth will do fine, but many other species along homo sapiens sapiens will go extinct.

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     Joe Nash (joenash@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 06:22:48 JST Joe Nash

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @LaChasseuse this is true but the absolute temperature isn’t the issue with anthropogenic warming, it’s the rate of change, which is exceeding the ability of species to adapt, leading to the 6th mass extinction. The rate of change is similar to other other mass extinction events, e.g. super volcano eruptions, meteor impacts. Earth will still be “fine” on geological timescales, sure, but idk, I just always find this line of reasoning deeply sad. Like I really don’t want to believe that people can only be compelled to care if the human species specifically doesn’t go extinct, and couldn’t give a fuck if 99% of species ever observed by a human’s naked eyes do

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     Derek Pennycuff (dap6000@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 12:13:26 JST Derek Pennycuff

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Didn't George Carlin say something like "The planet is fine, the people are fucked"?

     Climate change is gonna cause a lot of needless suffering among human and non-human living things. Up to and including extinction events. But I think we'll end up reducing our own population faster than we can render the planet literally inhospitable to life.

     Life, uh, finds a way.

     But, yes, this is no excuse to do whatever we can to fight climate change.

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     Oggie (oggie@woof.group)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 22:18:28 JST Oggie

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Best take on this Ive heard recently is 'Look we really need to stop draining all the fossil fuels because we're making shit way harder for the species that comes about 60 million years after us, okay? They're gonna have to jump straight to nuclear.

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     John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Apr-2026 23:00:36 JST John Maxwell

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @LaChasseuse @thomasfuchs We won't. We'll go first.