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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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10. As the planet is burning we may have a lot of saplings growing in the ashes.

Reply to hatrack (Reply #9)

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 08:25 AM

Jun 27

The issue though, as I suggested is that in these times fires are hotter than those among which these species evolved, and further, given the droughts as the atmosphere collapses, the wood may be much drier.

It may take natural selection millenia, tens, hundreds of millennia to sort this out.

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