‘Lego and tardigrades’: when humans finally destroy the world, what will remain?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/26/lego-and-tardigrades-when-humans-finally-destroy-the-world-what-will-remain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

by mhicreachtain

4 comments

  1. This will be our legacy. Capitalism created some wonderful profits for the super rich, and had a beautiful invisible hand. But it wiped out most of life on Earth and left us with nothing but Lego and tardigrades.

  2. I think aside from us launching all of our nukes at each other, the most likely scenario is that we make earth uninhabitable for our complex societies and we crash back to simpler levels. If we die out fully which I think is extremely unlikely, the earth will belch for a few million years then it’ll be covered in a thick mat of life again, like we never existed.

    Not to suggest that this isn’t still an absolutely disastrous scenario for us humans, obvs.

  4. Thanks for sharing. Sick of the George Carlin thinking I see prevalent on other subs and occasionally this one & Ecology. It is possible for earth’s climate to be irreversibly altered through human actions, by destruction of the ozone layer, runaway warming leading to venusian-like conditions etc. Anyone who doesn’t believe the fall is coming hasn’t read up on Kessler Cascade, which is inevitable and will wipe out global supply chains.

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