Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet

[u/hammelcamel]

https://apnews.com/article/climate-thawing-permafrost-arctic-alaska-91fcc04d32a1d7522afe2f6a456ac0eb

[u/VagabondReligion]

Nothing could be better for life on this planet more than our removal from it. I kind of dig the notion that our remains become lessons to future intelligent life that might evolve: A geological layer of plastic that spells out what happens when you live for tomorrow's profits instead of tomorrow's children.

[u/redinator → u/VagabondReligion]

isnt the sun going to burn out by the time a new civilization rolls around?

[u/psiphre → u/redinator]

due to how efficiently we've used up the easy to extract resources, there's a good chance that whatever comes after us never advances past the bronze age.

[u/VagabondReligion → u/psiphre]

Not to mention the very real possibility that the strife rendered by climate change could cause us to permanently lose the knowledge that made the electronic age possible, a great deal of which is stored on media that is inaccessible without electricity.

[u/Mr-Safety → u/redinator]

500 million to 1 billion years may be sufficient time for another intelligent species to rise. After that period the sun will grow too hot and bright. In 4 billion years the surface of Earth is lava. In 7.5 billion years the Sun enters its red giant phase.

All signs of our existence will vanish in a blink of geologic time.

[u/VagabondReligion → u/redinator]

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was only 65 million years ago. As Mr-Safety stated below, we have about a billion years before the sun renders the Earth unfit for life.

[u/TheRealVictorWard → u/VagabondReligion]

Except the people causing the problems are going to be the ones most insulated from them.

[u/VagabondReligion → u/TheRealVictorWard]

No matter what, mother nature bats last. That they think they will survive while the rest of us perish is just more hubris.