The AI calamity that will kill off humanity (or at least our current way of life) is the massively increased output of greenhouse gases on account of the huge AI datacenter power usage, mostly fueled by fossil fuel generators.
This will speed up climate change and the mass extinction event already occuring. For lots of living species on this planet it is already too late. And instead of doing everything in our power to counter that, we are actively piling on top of the causes for it. All for nothing but greed.
Remember how quickly rivers cleaned up during Covid? Some things would get fixed basically overnight. Deforestation would take a year to resolve the worse of it, a couple of centuries to really get back to pre-agricultural times.
Many habitats are completely fucked because of climate change though. For example, coral reefs likely will not survive except in isolated pockets. And because coral is a keystone species, all of the life that depends on them is also likely fucked.
Life in general will continue, but we are already well down the path of drastically reducing the planet’s biodiversity.
We have been on the path of decreasing biodiversity since Neolithic times. Humans are really good at taming the Earth and killing anything that moves.
The most recent episode of the podcast Past Lives interviewing Kyle Harper goes into detail about this if you are interested.
Is this supposed to be apologia for climate change or is it just a not-so-fun fact? In any case, the rate of extinction has increased exponentially since the industrial revolution. Prior extinction rates don’t even register in comparison to now.
nature can bounce back surprisingly quickly. we saw that during the lockdowns. it’s a thing that gives me hope.
but also, so much irreversible damage has already been done; we’re in a mass extinction, after all. it will be millions of years before we have a similar level of biodiversity as we did before humans took over the planet.
The pollution in our air, water, soil will travel, not disappear. They may eventually over very long geological timescales, but the poisons may never truly be neutralized, but only eventually locked back in with another ice age or deep embedding in soil and ice.
That said, I am not a scientist, paid or otherwise.
Rotten dinos, virii, radioactiva material WebTV weren’t poison until they were mined and thawed, millenia after they froze and were buried in mud and ice, which also took time. Lol yes.
There’s a lot of evidence that the earth could recover from some of what we’ve wrought pretty quickly. It seems like no help is coming, but maybe there are a lot of us out here who have been forced to wake up to the notion that ecoterrorism is the best course of action.
I am so glad I never procreated.
I wonder, if there is an AI calamity that kills off humanity, how long it will take the earth to heal all the shit we’ve done to it?
The AI calamity that will kill off humanity (or at least our current way of life) is the massively increased output of greenhouse gases on account of the huge AI datacenter power usage, mostly fueled by fossil fuel generators.
This will speed up climate change and the mass extinction event already occuring. For lots of living species on this planet it is already too late. And instead of doing everything in our power to counter that, we are actively piling on top of the causes for it. All for nothing but greed.
Remember how quickly rivers cleaned up during Covid? Some things would get fixed basically overnight. Deforestation would take a year to resolve the worse of it, a couple of centuries to really get back to pre-agricultural times.
Many habitats are completely fucked because of climate change though. For example, coral reefs likely will not survive except in isolated pockets. And because coral is a keystone species, all of the life that depends on them is also likely fucked.
Life in general will continue, but we are already well down the path of drastically reducing the planet’s biodiversity.
We have been on the path of decreasing biodiversity since Neolithic times. Humans are really good at taming the Earth and killing anything that moves. The most recent episode of the podcast Past Lives interviewing Kyle Harper goes into detail about this if you are interested.
Is this supposed to be apologia for climate change or is it just a not-so-fun fact? In any case, the rate of extinction has increased exponentially since the industrial revolution. Prior extinction rates don’t even register in comparison to now.
Air and temperature changes need to reset, too.
depends on what you mean by “heal.”
nature can bounce back surprisingly quickly. we saw that during the lockdowns. it’s a thing that gives me hope.
but also, so much irreversible damage has already been done; we’re in a mass extinction, after all. it will be millions of years before we have a similar level of biodiversity as we did before humans took over the planet.
The pollution in our air, water, soil will travel, not disappear. They may eventually over very long geological timescales, but the poisons may never truly be neutralized, but only eventually locked back in with another ice age or deep embedding in soil and ice.
That said, I am not a scientist, paid or otherwise.
Eons.
Lol, no.
Rotten dinos, virii, radioactiva material
WebTVweren’t poison until they were mined and thawed, millenia after they froze and were buried in mud and ice, which also took time. Lol yes.A pox on auto-incorrect.
https://abcnews.com/International/venice-canals-clear-fish-coronavirus-halts-tourism-city/story?id=69662690
There’s a lot of evidence that the earth could recover from some of what we’ve wrought pretty quickly. It seems like no help is coming, but maybe there are a lot of us out here who have been forced to wake up to the notion that ecoterrorism is the best course of action.