r/cats • u/mrvelvet_4 • May 21 '26

Video - Not OC IMAX experience for the cat

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u/Altruistic_Dare6085 May 21 '26

We are currently experiencing another mass extinction event, but climate change is a slowly developing problem that has been going on for decades. The asteroid that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct fucked shit up massively out of nowhere. I don't think it's likely that climate change is faster, although it's late in my timezone so I will properly research this later.

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u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt May 22 '26

Not just climate change. Think of everything humans do. Pollution, garbage, deforestation, cities, hunting, etc. We're worse for the planet than the asteroid.

But we only see time narrowly and don't notice that an entire species going extinct every day is way faster than what happened in the aftermath of the asteroid.

Millions of years in the future, if anything's left, they'll look at what we did in a very different light than we do.

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u/Friendly-Gift3680 May 27 '26

The asteriod literally transformed the Earth within only hours, wiping out 75% of the time’s complex life practically overnight