Ppl have so internalized the idea Earth was made for us they don't realize how few tweaks would make Earth an "alien planet"https://twitter.com/alexcruise/status/871087456392667136 …
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Crichton's Jurassic Park novel kept in some points the films left out, like how the dinosaurs all have health problems bc our world is alien
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The big dinos can barely stay conscious bc modern Earth's O2 lvl feels to them like being at the top of Mount Everest
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The reason we don't have two-foot-long bugs today is there's literally not enough oxygen in our air, they would die instantly
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Fully liberating all buried carbon wouldn't send us back to a replica of the Carboniferous -- it doesn't work like that
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But the new world would be different as hell (possibly literally)
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If you have limitless faith in humans' ability to adapt, ok, well, that's always true until it isn't
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(Also why calls to just colonize other planets when we use up Earth are so dumb)
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The big thing that killed the Biosphere 2 experiment and similar experiments was the O2/CO2 balance
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It's really hard to set up a self-regulating system that matches what the Earth already does
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Which has been remarkably self-correcting so far for all the crap we've done to it
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But if it swings too much one way or the other it hits a different equilibrium in which people have a tough time breathing
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