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Stargleamer

(2,827 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:42 PM Monday

"If we continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. . . [View all]

Fossil records reveal Earth’s mass extinctions are followed by a rise of ocean cephalopods.

They’re rising again during the current 6th mass extinction.

Let’s hope they have a better go of it than we primates have. Something tells me they couldn’t do worse at least.

◉●○•° (@ontopunk.bsky.social) 2026-06-22T16:56:32.750Z

"If we continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide in volumes that match the volcanoes and lavas that tended the Triassic, creating a reduction in high latitude polar regions without similar temperature increase in the tropics (what is happening now), and if we cause the critical ocean currents to slow or cease by 2050, and studies predict we are, then in all probability we are headed toward the sixth mass extinction. The cephalopods are coming."

https://nautil.us/the-cephalopods-are-coming-1281395
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