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Human, student, non-Buddhist Buddhist, intellectual masochist. Confident only of my own ignorance. Don't believe anything I say.

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    1. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      From Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens': "[T]he first wave of Sapiens colonization was one of the biggest and swiftest ecological disasters to befall the animal kingdom." (thread)pic.twitter.com/Ay4pKL0K1u

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    2. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Before humans migrated out of Afro-Asia about 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a variety of organisms that had evolved in isolation for millions of years.

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    3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Among these creatures were 450-pound, six-foot kangaroos, a marsupial lion as large as a modern tiger, flightless birds twice the size of ostriches, the giant diprotodon - a two-and-a-half-ton wombat - as well as lizards, snakes, and giant koalas.

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    4. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Save for the birds and reptiles, these animals were marsupials - meaning that, like kangaroos, they gave birth to tiny, helpless offspring, which they nurtured with milk in abdominal pouches.

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    5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Within a few thousand years of Humans' arrival in Australia, twenty-three of the twenty-four animal species weighing 100 pounds or more became extinct, as did a large number of smaller species. The entire food chain throughout the Australian ecosystem was broken and rearranged.

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    6. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      As if that weren't remarkable enough, the Homo Sapien migration to America - which took place around 16,000 years ago - resulted in an even bigger ecological disaster.

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    7. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Upon arriving in North America, humans "encountered mammoths and mastodons, rodents the size of bears, herds of horses and camels, oversized lions and dozens of large species the likes of which are completely unknown today, among them fearsome sabre-tooth cats and giant sloths."

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    8. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      "South America had an even more exotic menagerie of large mammals, reptiles, and birds. The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation. . . ."

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    9. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Within 2,000 years of humans setting foot, most of these species were gone. In North America, thirty-four our of forty-seven genera of large mammals disappeared. In South America, fifty out of sixty. So did thousands of species of smaller mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects.

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      Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17

      Note that this was all millennia before the Agricultural Revolution, after which events like this repeated themselves many times. Fucking humans, man. Always fucking shit up.

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        2. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Apr 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          Thank you for this informative thread. Thankfully, widespread human-caused species extinction is a thing of the past. Humans now preserve animal habitats, and no species will ever become extinct again.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
          Replying to @chagmed

          Indeed. Clearly humans are great at learning from our past destructive behavior, and have gotten our act together.

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        4. Chāgmé‏ @chagmed Apr 17
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          Yes! Humans are the best! We are in the process of reversing climate change, bringing peace to the Middle East, Southeast Asia, terraforming Mars, and creating artificial meat!

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 17
          Replying to @chagmed

          Settle down, Pinker.

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        2. Elodie‏ @NathanLander Apr 19
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          Any thoughts on plans to reinstate extinct species we killed off via genetic reconstruction? (That's probably not the right technical term for it)

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 19
          Replying to @NathanLander

          That's a good question. I don't know enough about biology or genetics to say how feasible that is. Though I'd imagine there might be some problems with it. For example, could we determine how that would impact the current ecosystem? Maybe it'd do more damage at this point.

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        4. Elodie‏ @NathanLander Apr 19
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          I don't know much about it either. I heard of it first in a ted talk a couple of years ago. Apparently it's called deextinction now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-extinction …

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        5. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 19
          Replying to @NathanLander

          That's really fascinating. The argument that de-extinction might be used to help fix climate change is an interesting one. Pretty scary how good humans are getting at manipulating the world around us.

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        2. Jamie Curcio‏ @Mythos_Media Apr 19
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          We're an invasive species by design. The problem is we have no new ecosystems to disrupt, colonize and take advantage of.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 19
          Replying to @Mythos_Media

          After the industrial revolution, humans branched out and expanded our colonialism to the seas. We've had our fun with terrestrial life, and now we're also fucking up the oceans with industrial pollution.

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        2. Apostol‏ @iamapostol Apr 18
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          Your argument is superficial. Mass(and not-so-mass) extinctions happened before humans. And will continue happening even if we're not around. Fucking <everything> man. Always fucking <everything else> up. Humans are no different, just more effective.

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        3. Failed Buddhist‏ @Failed_Buddhist Apr 18
          Replying to @iamapostol

          I didn't say humans are the sole cause of extinctions (see: the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, which occurred some 60 million years before humans, and was infinitely more devastating). We do our fair share, though. But yes; fucking matter, man. Always fucking up other matter.

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        4. Apostol‏ @iamapostol Apr 18
          Replying to @Failed_Buddhist

          Yes, we do our fair share. And it also may be valuable to reduce the suffering and devastation we humans create, whenever we have the chance.

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