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Originally Posted by dyna mo
umm, hmmm, well, not sure how to say this, so i'll just say it, that's the research i cited in my OP.
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Ooops, sorry. Didn't make the connection due to lack of reading the entire link in your OP. My bad. Modified my post.
But what is laughable in the Discovery link I posted is that they expand on the theory in your posted link and blame industrialized society as the cause of the climate change that leads to the extinction. You know - to make us feel bad for having an industrial society and for just being human.
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But now we have an intelligent lifeform that emerged as a dominant force, interrupting and exploiting our planet??s natural cycles. Humanity has inadvertently created a new bottleneck ?? let??s call it the ??Industrial Bottleneck? ?? by causing irreversible changes to our delicate biosphere. Now, we??re seeing rapid impacts on our civilization as the balance in our climate is knocked off-kilter by the inexorable rise of greenhouse gases from industrial processes and energy needs.
Are these bottlenecks common throughout the cosmos? If an extraterrestrial lifeform ??makes the grade? and survives the Gaian Bottleneck, does it then face another existential threat from their evolution into a industrial civilization?
For now, this is all speculation, but what??s clear from observations of our own planet, is that the mother of all existential self-inflicted bottlenecks is on the horizon and, unless we find a way of reversing the damage we??ve caused to our environment, it seems we??ll quickly become just another lifeform that didn??t make the grade.
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