| ▲ | card_zero a day ago | |||||||||||||
Yup. I'm sure they tried at some point and got beaten into equilibrium by other slimy things that were also trying to proliferate. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | yorwba a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
Not without first filling the oceans and atmosphere with toxic amounts of oxygen, driving all slimy things that couldn't adapt fast enough into extinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event On the plus side, since we descend from slimy things that survived the carnage, we have fairly good oxygen tolerance and completely removing all CO₂ might not even hurt all that much. | ||||||||||||||
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