Pay walled, but I gotta say, I've not seen any reason why we deserve to go on. We are a parasite on the planet destroying everything as we go until there is nothing left.

[–] swnt@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cyanobacteria: hold my beer

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's only become as big of an issue now due to our own influence. Fertiliser runoff being a huge contributor.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What swnt meant were the precambrian cyanobacteria in the ancient anaerobic world that started producing oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis. Oxygen was toxic to all then existing organisms. The cyanobacteria were so successful that they managed to poison the whole world, which later lead to the evolution of oxygen breathing organisms like us, but at that time, it was a global catastrophe.

[–] swnt@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly!

Not to mention, that this new oxygen was also poisonous to these bacteria themselves as well!

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they were releasing toxic waste into the atmosphere!

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