[yingw787]

I think I noticed this too. When I was in elementary school in the early 2000s, the stench of run-over worms was almost unbearable after rains. Worm guts everywhere. There were also bugs flying around me whenever I went outside to play. I hated it and wanted it to go away.

It did.

[r00fus]

Does it concern you? It does me.

[yingw787]

Oh yeah. Be careful with what you wish for. One day us humans might not be just dominant, we will be alone. And in that sense, I don't want us to prevail against Mother Nature; I just want a healthy balance.

[frutiger]

Mother Nature has been around for a very long time. She will not remember us when we are gone.

[acqq]

> Mother Nature (...) will not remember us when we are gone.

She will. Yes, she will outlive us, but with very heavy losses. Due to these losses, it will be very obvious we have existed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

"one of the most significant extinction events in the history of the Earth" ... "is mainly a result of human activity."

"The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background rates."

And we "just started" (considering the known effects of the human induced global warming).

[garmaine]

I think you missed the point of the comment. If human beings drive ourselves extinct, life will eventually rebound just as it has from other, even larger mass extinctions.

[acqq]

What the comment actually claimed is that whatever will be after us "will not remember us."

Which is not true. Other comparable extinctions to the one we are currently causing are on the hundreds of the millions of years scale.

What we are causing will be definitely seen as an extinction event for at least millions of years in the future. That's how big it is. "The life will eventually rebound" is completely different from it "will not remember us."

[nikofeyn]

i hate when this sentiment pops up. it is practically meaningless but can even be even be viewed as harmful. most people don’t care about the environment already, so stating it will live on just silently emboldens people to keep on keeping on. many plants and animals are already dead directly due to human influence and others are to quickly follow.

[Meing4im]

She does not have that much time and thus tries at intelligent life left. Gradual brightening of the sun will start making the earth uninhabitable in about 800Ma due to accelerated silicate weathering.

[kian]

Can you provide some links with more details? Googling sub-phrases from your comment finds me nothing but information on the natural weathering cycle of silicates as it relates to CO2.