We - er - just have to get through this century's horrors first, before the survivors have much Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on June 5, 2019, 8:32 am, in reply to "The great mycelial nets are always there in healthy woodland soils, and constitute a hefty part of"
chance of seeing - and you have to hope balmily actually assisting - this sort of natural remediation and refecundation of the Earth. But Mam Gaia will organise it, whether we cooperate or not. The "tough b1tch" [Lynn Margulis's affectionate description] has defeated far worse challenges than anything puny hom sap can produce. Yes, including nuclear winter. You think the End-Permian Extinction was less than that...? Or the Chicxulub catastrophe...? Until the Sun enters its red-giant phase, there's likely to be life tearing along on this planet regardless - luckily for hom sap.
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