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Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:46:06 UTC No. 16618300
What's the ideal temperature for the earth to be, so that the most possible life can co-exist in equilibrium?
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:49:35 UTC No. 16618303
maybe like 21 or 22
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 01:09:32 UTC No. 16618317
>>16618300
its either 136 or 142
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:00:15 UTC No. 16618352
>>16618300
Whatever is unviable for humans.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:04:35 UTC No. 16618355
>>16618352
the advent of humanity has given the biosphere the choice of which animals live and die, we don't only bring free will individually but also create the noosphere which allows conscious thought to permeate the biosphere and have some level of will
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:11:29 UTC No. 16618357
>>16618355
e coli. gives free will to my balls to rot and give me sepsis.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:29:48 UTC No. 16618362
>>16618300
>What's the ideal temperature for the earth to be, so that the most possible life can co-exist in equilibrium?
Supposedly (I say that because fossil records will never 'truly' be able to demonstrate the actual levels of biodiversity in the past. Likewise, there could just be a modern bias: modern fossils are simply in better condition, easier to find, not destroyed by time.) our modern Neogene, or the Cenozoic, period is the 'height' of biodiversity where more organisms have co-existed than any other time period.
Assuming this is real and not an error or a mistake this might imply: the perfect temperature is much colder, in such a way that temperate climates and seasonal variation produce a world filled with numerous environments for millions and billions of different organisms to adapt to and preventing *too* many generalists from just dominating a more uniform biome.
Granted, there is a chance that extinction events also create more opportunities for biodiversity: more uniform, older, orders of life dominating a biosphere and preventing other organisms from filling in niches in their own unique way (think of how the Jurassic period was seemingly dominated by Sauropods, whereas during the Cretaceous they were largely extinct and you see significantly more varied herbivores). I doubt this though, since if my graph is correct it looks like Paleozoic diversity was fairly even despite extinctions.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:01:08 UTC No. 16619525
>>16618300
the ideal temperature would be measured in farenheit