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TheAnswerEK42 t1_j1py0ul wrote

There will not be A lot of animal species left that’s for sure

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BannedAccount178 t1_j1q2830 wrote

Considering we'll eventually have the tech (we already do to some degree) to bring old/extinct ones back I don't think that's true. Especially if we save DNA for any dying species today

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youre_a_pretty_panda t1_j1tyfte wrote

Without any single act of human intervention (before we were even a distinct species) 99.9% of all things that ever lived had gone extinct.

Humans may have slightly increased background processes but, practically speaking, we've contributed to less than 0.1% of all extinctions.

Life dies. Some life survives and then dies. Extinction is the rule and the norm for most species without humans ever having been involved.

Furthermore, humans are part of nature and the universe and not somehow apart or removed from it so, even our 0.1% contribution is also part of natural extinction.

Perhaps it's normal and commonplace for a species to cause some accelerated extinction once it reaches a certain level of technological advancement.

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