This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.

Remember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not "thoughts had in the shower!"

(For an explanation of what a "showerthought" is, please read this page.)

Rule-breaking posts may result in bans.

I suspect before too long, old Earth will have to come get us if it wants us

[removed]

[removed]

“We all”?? So just because you think it, that must mean everyone thinks it??

Us humans think we have so much control. But we don’t. The earth and universe does what it wants.

We're just creating another mass extinction event. The earth has seen multiple of those and it'll see more. We're not likely to.

[removed]

Humans can't destroy the Earth. The Earth will be fine.

We are at risk, however, to make the Earth uninhabitable for ourselves.

It’s more of us pushing the Earth to a point where it’ll kill us

I feel like it'll be a counter attack from Earth. We continue to hurt it so much that finally she's just like, alright here's 40 days and 40 nights of rain. And then watch all the Jesus freaks come out and say, see Noah's ark was real, and then they drown and I laugh while on a roof and then I drown, then the Earth laughs.

Well that story took a turn.

In the end the sun will destroy the Earth. Either way the Earth will be gone.

I often tell people that it's sad what humans have done to nature. But it's sadder what nature has done to humans.

Except the greenhouse effect is exponential, Earth will likely end up like Venus; we'll effectively have destroyed the ecosystem beyond repair

[removed]

Humans will destroy humans. Earth will be fine. Just different

We don’t all think that. Being a doomer isn’t helping anyone.

[removed]

There's no chance we'll destroy the earth. We'll just destroy the earth's ability to keep us alive.

“Earth Abides”

Earth has been here before us, it will be here Afterwards with humanity as a footnote to the list of things it survived with little effort

Here? Sure. But the concept of "Earth" as a planet that sustains life will be gone. But yeah, the third rock in orbit around Sol will still be there

It will heal in time

Exponential rise of the temperatures isn't exactly something that can be reversed in a closed system. Again, look at Venus

Perhaps, not like we'll be here to know for sure.

Humans are part of the Earth, so neither is actually true, for now.

Until some humans leave the planet forever and grow their food from the matter of some other rock, humans are just fancy chunks of Earth that move around being all sentient and stuff.

[removed]

We all think humans will destroy the humans, but in reality, humans will destroy humans far before that.

I'm not sure why people don't think the earth could become uninhabitable, it's been uninhabitable for most of its existence, Venus and Mars were at one point capable of sustaining life, neither can now. If anything it's an inevitability, we probably shouldn't run head first into that.

It's not as if actions do not have consequences; some things cannot be undone or magicked away. Humans have already done irreversible things to the planet and blindly assuming our guilt as a species will evaporate when we're gone is awfully optimistic

[removed]