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Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.


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[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have they tried just leaving one leg out of the cave? Works for me with my blankets.

[–] smokingManhole@lemmy.world 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Magrath@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that AI generated? The bear has two pupils.

[–] smokingManhole@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, it is AI generated.

Why settle for 20/20 vision when you can have 20/20/20/20?

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That is amazing. Yes, exactly like that.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Great. So we're not only killing the polar bears but the grizzly bears as well. Humanity is a plague.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We've already killed roughly 40 percent of all animals since the 1970s, with an accelerating rate. Humans are the 6th mass extinction, the last being the asteroid that killed (most of) the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. We are the also the end of the longest stable period of bio diversity in the history of this planet.

[–] bec@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really wish we go extinct before we manage to find an habitable planet we can also realistically colonize

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Grizzlies are the subspecies unique to North America, closely tied to the Kodiak, and are considerably larger than the Eurasian or Siberian brown bears. The article would be referring to one of those latter two, probably.

Although I imagine the same issue exists for the Grizzlies and Kodiaks of North America.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The article called them grizzlies, so that's what I went with.

[–] Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

This is depressing.