[campercoder]

Climate change is causing this.

Every ecoystem on Earth took 10s of millions of years to find it's equilibrium. Everything living in those ecosystems is a product of millions of years of adaptation and evolution.

If you go and change the temperature, the amount of water & the seasons, then it is a big rug pull under the feet of evolution. Everything can and will collapse.

Look at what is happening in the arctic... now that permafrost is melting, you have massive, uncontrolled methane release.

People think that we can continue to pump CO2. We are very wrong about that.

I just wish it were the pine beetles as the ones dying out.

[aw3c2]

You are posting hyperbole, millions of years is a bad measure to tell people that human influence is affecting. There is no equilibrium either, nature changes a lot. Look at temperature history, big changes happened again and again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...

[filoeleven]

When people say “the climate has changed before,” these are the kinds of changes they are talking about. https://xkcd.com/1732/

You’re right, there is no equilibrium. But there is a limit to how rapidly any system can handle changes while remaining recognizable as the same system.

[campercoder]

Yup, it's about the rate of change. Sucking 10s of millions of years worth of sequestered carbon out of the ground and injecting into the atmosphere over just 100 years is complete and utter suicide. For all living things on our planet.