Re: Gaia

Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

The good news:  Gaia is real, and she can take care of herself.
There will be life on Earth until the sun swallows it.

But if people are extinct, life won't survive after the sun swallows
the Earth.  People can move life elsewhere, or can move the whole
Earth.  It's unlikely that another intelligent species will evolve.

The bad news:  Gaia regarded the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg)
Extinction Event the way we regard a mild case of sunburn.

Would that make the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event a 2nd degree
sunburn?

The fact that neither the trilobites or the dinosaurs were able to
avoid their doom is strong evidence that without us, whatever comes
next will also be doomed.

I find watching the series "Life After People" oddly reassuring.

I'll admit that the end of our species wouldn't be all bad, since it
would include Republicans, Democrats, police, prosecutors, free-lance
criminals, and people who stuff this newsgroup with endless discussion
of Dr. Who.

Re "Life After People," never mind when the last artificial light will
go out, what I want to know is when the last automated scam phone call
will take place.
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