What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
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Moving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social – 36 points – Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
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The real answer is Humans
That book The World Without Us makes a great case for that.
The best thing for the continued survival of the planet and all other species would be the extinction of the human race. Sad but true.
Extinction of capitalism. Humans existed/exist for thousands of years in harmony with their environment.
Most other currently extant species yes, planet and life in general, nah. There's too many extremophiles out there that prove that even if we make the planet completely uninhabitable by anything even remotely resembling humans, animals, plants, etc, there will still be life in one form or another. Try and imagine what we'd have to do to screw up the planet bad enough that tardigrades would be unable to survive.