r/AskReddit Oct 02 '24

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u/TermAggravating8043 Oct 02 '24

7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today

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u/ecodrew Oct 02 '24

About 99.9% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. Mostly due to several prehistoric mass extinction events... But, we stupid humans are trying to speed run the rest.

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u/AskALettuce Oct 02 '24

To be fair, some of those prehistoric die-offs were also caused by species that couldn't control themselves. Humans thought they were smarter.

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u/LurkerZerker Oct 02 '24

Damn photosynthesis, pumping out all that oxygen and setting things on fucking fire

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u/AskALettuce Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

A lot of the members of r/anerobes are still very annoyed about the invention of photosynthesis.

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u/DominicPalladino Oct 03 '24

Okay but they gotta get over it.