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Richard Stallman on Nostr: [1/2] The end-Permian great extinction wiped out nearly all life on Earth, after ...

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-to-the-sixth-major-mass-extinction

The end-Permian great extinction wiped out nearly all life on Earth, after 300,000 years of super volcanoes had caused great but lesser disaster, when hot magma set huge underground fossil fuel deposits on fire. The resulting CO2 is what caused almost total extinction. We are emitting CO2 much faster than the Earth can recycle it. By