Comment by retrac

As terrible as the consequences of humanity will be for biodiversity and life on Earth, there is a strange silver lining. We seem to be one of the most intense, unprecedented, sudden, and multifaceted selection pressures life has ever experienced on Earth. We affect everything from the DNA and biochemistry to continent-wide land use. We are creating weird, new, toxic environments all over the planet, to which existing life must adapt. We're going to see all sorts of weird and wonderful novel behaviours evolve in basically every form of remaining life over the next few millennia, assuming we're still here to see it.