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by shiro 3548 days ago
Earth doesn't need to "fight back"---it only lets species that can cope with the changed environment take over.

Once, oxygen was toxic to most of the species on earth, when some algae started producing it by photosynthesis. If Earth fought back, we'd had very different species by now.

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We'd be blue-green algae