Is Earth the Old One Out, or Is It Just a Fluke?

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Is it normal for a planet to have just one of these epic, game change erruptions at one time, or is it just a fluke? The scales of carbon we're talking about are too big. This is weirdly reassuring that humans are unlikely to break the earth completely yet. Werdleav: If we want to pay homage to what happens to venus, i think bea terrible idear. We should not aspire to be volcanoes.

Venus is the hottest, scariest planet in the solar system, but billions of years ago it may have been a lot like Earth, complete with an ocean of water. So, how did Venus go to hell? And could Earth be next?

This is the final episode of our four-part series, Lost Worlds, and it originally ran on December 1, 2021.

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