Won’t be long now.
You know that meme that came out of the pandemic? “We are the virus.” I’ve thought about it and I don’t agree. We’re not a virus, we’re more like a large asteroid impact.
Periods of rapid climate change are often associated with mass extinction events. Earth could experience a mass extinction event like the one that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs, as a result of this period of extremely rapid climate change that we’ve created.
No, we’re not a virus, we’re a natural disaster on par with some of the worst to ever befall this planet.
I’ve always figured we’re parasites on a global level.
We consume and excrete, but we have yet to add anything of value to the planet.
what value can anything add to a planet?
a planet is a dead mass, no matter what you do to it, it don’t increase any value of it. The universe outside of earth don’t recognize it as some rare event or something sacred, even if humans disappear all of a sudden, a few years later some asteroid will hit it and the rest of life would wipe out. No big deal if we use the resources and destroy the planet, or the universe do it.
I’ve always considered our species more of an aggressive cancer, but I think your metaphor has more impact.
