How much would the Earth benefit if humans were to suddenly drop dead and go extinct? What would be the short and long term effects?
>>16927660the GDP would go down and the market would crash. (perfect time to buy the dip)
>>16927660Nature would take back whats rightfully hers. in 100,000 years there would be no evidence whatsoever of humans even existing
what is earth if not homes for humans
>>16927660number of species would probably increase again after a few tens of millennia
Define "benefit."
>>16927660When Bison dominated the Plains of the Midwest, it was a pock mark shit filled wasteland called the Great American Desert, but when humans began to dominate and become the caretaker, it became The World's Breadbasket, one of, if not the most fertile regions of earth in the history of humanity.
>>16927726Plastics and many other materials and structures would last a lot longer than that. A geological layer indicating human activity would be discoverable for many millions of years
>>16927660>earth benefitmaybe the earth instantiated humans to make pfas. once that is complete the destructor is invoked
>>16928621>Bison dominated the Plains of the Midwestpredator-prey computation suggest that was anomalous. so its primary predator had been eliminated some 200 years prior allowing the bison to multiply unbounded
>>16928621That is 100% a lie straight from the pit of hell. That is absolutely not what happened.
>>16927660I wouldn't mind going out with a whimper. My only hope is that I fall in a way that I slam the door open for my dogs to roam free. I don't want them to starve to death in a house where they can't get out.
It would be very bad for livestock.
Without humans to preserve it all life will go extinct in 500 million years from solar expansion. We are literally Earth’s only hope lmao
>>16930535>The most catastrophic thing is that all nuclear reactors will meltdown after a couple of weeks and will irradiate the fuck out of earthThat’s a meme. Pretty much no reactor on earth today will meltdown as severely as say Chernobyl thanks to better containment and safety systems, and even Chernobyl is far from the ecological disaster people think it. Animals live around it just fine. Much bigger consequence will be the runoff from all the breaking down containment and infrastructure for all the thousands of chemical products we use.
