The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!

  • ferretEnglish
    13•6 months ago

    if trees survived their self-inflected apocalypse, why can’t we?

    • MuchPineapplesEnglish
      12•6 months ago

      Oh humans will survive, no problem. I mean, not a lot of them and not happily, and there will probably be a nuclear war at the end there, but humans won’t go extinct. We’re too smart to not find a nice hole to hide in.

    • oo1
      9•6 months ago

      Trees breed by putting their babies into extremely resilient, heat and cold protected stasis pods that can go centuries without care and attention in the right conditions - like suviving an ice age or forest fire.

      Human babies are wimps by comparison - most of them would die after only a few days left outside at 0 degrees C.

      Humans probably will survive too - but how many?
      Elon + all this 3 mates.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•6 months ago

        Yeah, I freeze my spurm and I’m pretty sure there’s a few thousand different women on this continent who have frozen eggs

      • ferretEnglish
        12•6 months ago

        I don’t understand why you believe there is a difference between choosing to continue destroying the world and just “destroying the world”

          • EchEnglish
            10•6 months ago

            But their question wasn’t “Do humans deserve to go extinct?”, it was “Can we survive?” Your (valid) issues with human-driven climate change don’t really have anything to do with what they brought up.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 months ago

      Saying “trees” is like saying “mammals.”

      Those trees from back then were different species of trees.

      So, sure, mammals will survive, just like they survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. But we humans were not those mammals. And we won’t be the mammals that survive our self-inflicted apocalypse.

      We will be long gone.