Opinion of the Mount Toba supereruption

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

> Opinion of the Mount Toba supereruption, which killed most life on earth and reduced the human population to a few thousand people

What do you guys think?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

for the purposes of this poll i have to say ff but it didn't go far enough imo

[Agonized-Statism]

Our adaptations to the conditions created by it helped us defeat other archaic human species, so go us I guess. Our brand of dumb animals won the competitive exclusion principle. Sort of a hollow victory because we went on to do the anthropocene and probably ultimately doom ourselves by destroying the narrow band of conditions we've adapted to survive in on our planet, but you can't blame those early humans for that.

[Dr. MB]

Without it, given the butterfly effect, none of us currently living would be alive. FF.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

> Opinion of the Mount Toba supereruption, which killed most life on earth and reduced the human population to a few thousand people

What do you guys think?

which killed most life on earth?

Really?

Maybe people first need to get their facts right.

It didn't even come close to killing most life on earth. In fact human civilisation was far more devastating for life on earth than a single eruption, how devastating it even was.

No-one has ever stated or argued that most life on earth was killed by the eruption. No-one has, it's just GMac who thinks he knows it all.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Even for the human bottleneck theory more evidence is needed to proof that. It's still a theory, not a proven concept in science.

What did happen though is that it kickstarted an intense 10 year cooling and due to increasing albedo and advancing ice and glaciers and winters resulted after the effects of the volcanic winter faded away into a permanent cooling intensifying the ice age the world already was in. The thousand years following the eruption was a lot colder than the 1000 years preceding it.

While Sundaland - the land where it would have occured - which due to decreased sea surface levels would have allowed for a larger biomass than today was a refuge for animals who had to migrate due to the cold to warmer places.

[bagelman]

I listened to Mt. Toba talk about the supereruption and the emotional state he was in at the time on the J. James Rogan podcast and I gotta say for the purpose of this poll FF.