You sure can make the case that humans are an invasive species, but the fact is that we are the overwhelmingly dominant species on this planet, so it is what it is.
There’s a lower limit of 20 quadrillion ants on earth, so I’d say their species(es) are dominating us. Don’t even get me started on bacteria, they’re just puppeting us for their own benefit. I think even chickens are like 3:1 with humans.
Maybe by technology though, we definitely have the best cars, guns and microplastic.
No, every other animal, bacteria, fungi, plans, aliens that visited earth, have microplastics in them as well. It will probably remain a forever mystery how it all got everywhere.
The current planetary events will be marked by a distinctive line of plastics in the sediment rock (the ‘F-U boundary’ as the future crab historians will be calling it).
Yes, but dominant (especially “intelligent”) does not need to mean destructive. Nor to multiply beyond sustainable levels (ie until we hit hard walls, at the end of the current extinction event).
Except there is the same amount of Earth that was before & even less biodiversity & (wild) biomass.
Any increase in environment effects like that (even a local level) by a single species would be considered an infestation.
You sure can make the case that humans are an invasive species, but the fact is that we are the overwhelmingly dominant species on this planet, so it is what it is.
There’s a lower limit of 20 quadrillion ants on earth, so I’d say their species(es) are dominating us. Don’t even get me started on bacteria, they’re just puppeting us for their own benefit. I think even chickens are like 3:1 with humans.
Maybe by technology though, we definitely have the best cars, guns and microplastic.
I’m judging dominance by influence, not numbers.
No, every other animal, bacteria, fungi, plans, aliens that visited earth, have microplastics in them as well. It will probably remain a forever mystery how it all got everywhere.
The current planetary events will be marked by a distinctive line of plastics in the sediment rock (the ‘F-U boundary’ as the future crab historians will be calling it).
Hopefully we fuck it enough to permanently delete us. It will take millions of years, but the biosphere will recover eventually.
Yes, but dominant (especially “intelligent”) does not need to mean destructive. Nor to multiply beyond sustainable levels (ie until we hit hard walls, at the end of the current extinction event).