There’s no denying we have a cultural obsession with the end days—we dedicate countless hours of creative energy envisioning the destruction of the world. But let’s imagine, for once, that humans manage to survive the zombie apocalypse or the spread of a super virus or catastrophic climate change without wiping out the planet's biodiversity. What would the End look like if we don't cause it?
Science, it so happens, leaves little room for imagination. Most of us know that billions of years from now, our little blue planet is going to go up in flames, when our dying sun splatters fiery bursts of plasma all over the solar system. But this dramatic finale is really just life’s epilogue. Well before the sun scorches its surface, life on Earth will have slowly slipped away, over the course of several billion years.
“The end of life on Earth will look a lot like early evolution of our planet, but in reverse,” said Jack O’Malley-James, a recent graduate of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, who could aptly be described as having a PhD in The End of the World.
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