• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        13 hours ago

        That’s not how evolution works. A species evolves to get stronger in battle if the weak ones die in battle. A species evolves stronger lungs if the weak ones die of lung cancer. Dying of lung cancer doesn’t make a species better fighters.

        • Pollution makes their species stronger; this doesn’t imply an individual preference.

          Idiots walking off cliffs doesn’t make the survivors like cliffs; it teaches them to avoid them.

          That said, evolution can be a real crap shoot, and you never know what sort of perverse effects you’ll get: like us loving sugar so much we eat ourselves into diabetes.

          • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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            12 hours ago

            Maybe. Or maybe they like the pollution. Maybe with better resource availability, they’re able to spend more energy on growing bigger and stronger without threatening survival.