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by ncallaway 1930 days ago
> As opposed to elephants or sea urchins? How can humans not be the cause humanity's biggest problems?

Dinosaurs' biggest problems was asteroids. There are plenty of externalities outside of human control, or that humans are only marginally responsible for (asteroids, gamma ray bursts, volcanic eruptions, famine due to crop diseases, pandemics, etc).