The First Climate Crisis

Billions of years ago

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This current climate crisis isn’t the first time in the history of life that we’ve almost bricked the earth. We’ve almost ruined the earth with our emissions a few times before. I’m using ‘we’ loosely. Our ancestors were cyanobacteria at that point.

Life has always depended on some energy source. The first life used chemical energy, generated at deep sea…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.