Extinctions R Us

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See what you and your SUV did now? Mass extinction. It’s only happened five times before in the planet’s history without man, so clearly this is all your fault. The Daily Mail has this handy graphic to explain how factories emitting a trace gas that feeds plants has the same cataclysmic power as an asteroid from space, or something:

Once every 60 to 140 million years or so, the planet cleans house and resets the species count. The last mass extinction was 65 million years ago, so we’re in the geologic time frame window for another reboot. If there is another extinction event coming, rest assured that the only reason to blame mankind is because someone, somewhere needs a study funded.