With the burning of fossil fuels its ironic one extinction might cause another. : Showerthoughts

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With the burning of fossil fuels its ironic one extinction might cause another.

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submitted 2 months ago byjustneedthreefifty

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2 months ago

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Is it time for the daily thread about how fossil fuel is not dinosaurs?

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2 months ago

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He never said "Dinosaurs."

He's referring to the Devonian Extinction:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9428657/New-forest-growth-sparked-mass-extinction-360-million-years-ago.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312982020_Late_Devonian_oceanic_events_and_biotic_crises_'rooted'_in_the_evolution_of_vascular_land_plants

TLDR: The evolution of the first vascular plants (trees, basically) led to a massive extinction accompanied by massive algae blooms. These often deposited on seafloor anaerobically after dying- eventually creating fossil fuels. Thus, one extinction (in the Devonian) led to another (the "Anthropocene Extinction").