The Future of Earth

When humanity disappeared, it was only them.  They left everything behind.  Skyscrapers sent underwater created coral reefs, and invasive species remained.  One such case was the wallaby in Europe. Feral wallabies lacked predators and like many invasive species before them were unable to be contained.  Back when humans were around, they would try to stop invasive species like this, but support for getting rid of wallabies never materialised.  In fact, attempts were made to prevent attempts to control them, and so, they survived until after the end of the human species.  They were too cute, and over the years, took over.  The Cornwall Peninsula sheltered them as sea levels rose, and they grew larger and larger in a case of insular gigantism.  Smaller ones persisted though on Dover Island, and eventually rafted over to the peninsula across the Straights of Dover.  There they spread across Europe. https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/cou...

Death of the Whales Alright, this is probably going to be controversial, because some species like the bowhead whales are going to be brought up to argue that just because the famous baleen whales are endangered, it doesn't mean that the whole population is.  These include the blowhead, which is least concern, and Southern right whale.  However, the blowhead is likely to get fucked by climate change, and the southern right whale is considered endangered by CITES.   I have a caandidate for this though, and the other filter feeders they share their range with, blue and minke whales, one is famously endangered, and the other is threatened due to human activity.  Under this scinario, blue whales die out dispite our best efforts, and Minke whales are harmed due to human activity, and general whale threats.  General threats such as bycatch are likely to threaten it, and by the time humans go extinct, they will all be in a practically irreversible downward trend, ...

While many may wonder about the future of life on our planet, I have decided to take up the torch myself and illuminate what I believe may be in store for life on the planet.  This work will generally assume that humans go extinct  in the near future, and while I doubt this will happen, it is not needed for a creative exercise such as this that I conform too closely too reality.  Plenty of SpecEvo regarding future evolution are unrealistic.  All tomorrows has an inciting incident where intergalactic aliens come by and fuck with our genome, and I think that humans going extinct in the near future is a lot less of a stretch. Nearly all endangered animals are going to be prohibited from having decendents in this project, allowing for their niches to be filled.  If the animal in question is very common in its habitat but is still on the list (as is the case with the hippo) it may be spared.  Other groups may also be wiped out dispite not being too rare if they ...