re: #353 Throbert McGee

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.)

OK! It’s equivalent! Mindless microbes evolving the planet to allow an oxygen atmosphere, allowing the evolution of our simplest forms of our concestors, which led, eventually, to us, is the same as us, supposedly thinking beings, trashing our atmosphere. Got it.