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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/wild-ones-live/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah, we're strutting around like we're the first mass extinction event the planet's ever seen. The K-T asteroid didn't worry itself with random moths, why should we?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It's the first mass extinction event caused by one of the affected species.

Edit: It's the first mass extinction event knowingly and intentionally caused by one of the affected species.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

Also not true, the Great Oxidation Event likely knocked out 80% of the species on earth in the paleoproterozoic due to cyanobacteria respiration