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In general, I find people, probably due to the sheer difference in timescale that is beyond palpable understanding, to appreciate that our collective environmental impact precludes other species the evolutionary time to adapt to our impact and to fill gaps in "species web" to fill all the extinctions that are occurring.

Mass extinctions in the past were over a timescale of thousands of years, so there was some time for evolutionary "computation" to adapt.

Human mass extinction is occurring on the timescale of decades.




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