• skulblaka@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    At the rate we’re going we’ll be lucky if we aren’t all dead in 250 years, let alone 250 million.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Not all dead but whoever remains will be very miserable. Most electronics won’t last that long and requires complex production chains so no Mario Kart to spice up your hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

    • Firipu@startrek.website
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      9 months ago

      I mean, I can guarantee that every single mammal on earth alive today will be dead in 250 years. Nice prediction.

      If you mean humanity: humans will 100% still be around in 250 years. Even with an advanced society. As advanced and interconnected as now? Who knows. But we’ll still be far ahead of eg the middle ages or even early industrial revolution.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      Well, you are talking about just humans, while the article is talking about all forms of mammals

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    9 months ago

    If we’re still stuck on this planet, or unable to terraform it in 250 million years then we all deserve to go extinct.

  • angrystego@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Continents rearrange themselves very slowly. The change will be gradual. There’s no reason to think that life, including mammals, will not evolve during that time to cope with the change.

  • Swim@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    shit, thats plenty of time! crank up oil production for few thousand years /s