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OKIsItJustMe

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6. No. It's not "just arguing semantics"

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #5)

Fri May 19, 2017, 09:51 PM

May 2017

Last edited Fri May 19, 2017, 11:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Your claim was "The reality is, all species go extinct, but no other species has deliberately caused its own extinction."

Humanity does not have a death wish, we will not deliberately cause our own extinction. Humanity may bring about our own demise, in something resembling the Oxygen Catastrophe when species so disrupted the environment that they kicked off an extinction event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

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So With All These "Progressives" Around, Why Is The Planet Falling Apart? - Guardian [View all] hatrack May 2017 OP

This...... Binkie The Clown May 2017 #1

"... no other species has deliberately caused its own extinction ..." OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #2

I'm reminded of something I read many years ago. Binkie The Clown May 2017 #3

Still, while you were smoking, were you choosing to kill yourself? Or did you simply like smoking? OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #4

They liked smoking, and so decided not to quit. We like the products of raping the environment Binkie The Clown May 2017 #5

No. It's not "just arguing semantics" OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #6

Humanity does not have a death wish. On that we agree. Binkie The Clown May 2017 #7

Why I stress the difference OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #8

I believe that convincing enough people to make a difference... Binkie The Clown May 2017 #9

We need to define what it means to "make a difference" OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #10

:shrug: Binkie The Clown May 2017 #11

I don't believe extinction is a given OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #12

Quote rom thew O.P. Binkie The Clown May 2017 #13

Assuming your estimate is correct OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #14