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Given the size of them, we're perhaps lucky they disappeared.
At three meteres tall you'd want to keep well out of their way, Gigantopithecus blacki were 300 kilos & scientists now believe they disappeared due to climate change which they couldn't adapt to.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/30103812...-its-eerie
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Lol so global warming was a thing then?
Any Ford rangers in their fossil record?
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interesting article - and that was without all the man-made pollution contributing to it.
I guess the significant difference is these days we have the technology, knowledge and ability to do something about it to some extent...
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The point is that it's an inevitable thing regardless, humans just need to learn to adapt.
If no one built close to sea level, there would be no issue.
Only real difference is it might happen a couple thousand years in the future, but some suggest we may be in for another ice age sooner than we think, who knows.
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(12-01-2024, 12:48 PM)harm_less Wrote: (12-01-2024, 12:28 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: The point is that it's an inevitable thing regardless, humans just need to learn to adapt.
If no one built close to sea level, there would be no issue.
Only real difference is it might happen a couple thousand years in the future, but some suggest we may be in for another ice age sooner than we think, who knows.
So your solution to climate change is to live on a hill isolated from society's aggressions and produce and ignorant of scientific findings?
Well if you build there, dont complain, sea level rise is supposed to be a thing, whether or not we are to blame, only difference is we may bring it on a bit sooner.
Besides all the garbage about managed retreat suggests they want everyone to move out from these areas anyway.
Elon musk did a good discussion about this in India recently, he said we all are way overreacting to the whole climate change response and going too far with it. He makes a very good point.
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