• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Not surprising. The great dying was most likely due to Siberian volcanic eruptions that persisted for 2 million years. It likely took hundreds/thousands of years to start killing species through climate change.

    The current man-made extinction event is mostly due to humans directly destroying habitat and killing animals, instead of climate change — the majority of which occurred in the last 100 years.

    Don’t worry though — man made climate change will finish the job for most of the remaining macro-species we don’t actively farm for food.