you, oxygen-breathing intellectual: for the first time, in the Anthropocene, an organism is transforming its own planetary…

you, oxygen-breathing intellectual: for the first time, in the Anthropocene, an organism is transforming its own planetary environment.

me, early earth anaerobic heterotroph: fOr thE fIrsT tiMe, iN tHe anThRopOcenE, aN orGaNisM is tRanSfOrmIng iTs oWn pLanEtaRy eNviRoNMenT.

— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 22, 2019

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