re: #319 austin_blue

But the point is that human activity has thrown a monkey wrench into what was basically a stable system for several million years.

So what?

I mean, it’s not like this is the worst such monkey-wrench that Earth’s biosphere has managed to bounce back from. (The all-time champeens of destroying fragile ecosystems and causing mass extinctions of other species by being TOO DAMN SUCCESSFUL would undoubtedly be the primitive photosynthetic bacteria whose profligate oxygen-farting transformed the atmosphere of early Earth, wiped out innumerable species of oxygen-intolerant germies, and made possible the evolution of multicellular lifeforms such as ourselves.)