Nature is a massive self-regulating system of interconnected processes and relationships. Those species equipped to survive the post-human world will thrive while other, more specialised things like cultivated plants and domesticated animals might fare rather worse. But life will go on.
I saw some perfect evidence of this on Facebook yesterday when one of my closest friends, Dr Erica McAlister - dipterist and curator of flies at London's Natural History Museum - posted these two images:
As she wrote:
'I love these but, until today, I'd never realised what I was walking over while on my way to work. These are Hayward's Patent Self Locking Plate coalhole covers - they're hatches for underground coal bunkers, the holes of which have happily been colonised by Nature.'
Nature pays no attention to rules or boundaries set by humans.
If it can find a place to grow and thrive, it will.
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