TAR wrote:
> Sean Carroll wrote:
>>TAR wrote:
>>>Plus New Agers have been talking about the earth's upcoming sudden pole
>>>shift for decades... where climates will change around the world,
>>>waters will rise and cover many areas of land, and millions will die
>>>instantaneously. Makes me wonder why I'm still living by the shore.
>>If that happened, it would be very disruptive, but it certainly would
>>not be the end of the planet.
> Well, supposedly it would change the earth, and life, as we know it.
But it would not be the end of the planet.
At the end of the Paleozoic Era, 250 million years ago, something like
97% of all species of life on the planet disappeared.
And yet, the planet is still here.
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