🌎Earth's Over-the-Top Ranking🌎

4th Place: Meteorite❕

First, here is one that sounds relatively light but is actually quite heavy.

One day, a meteorite went
BOOM
and hit the Earth😲

As a result, dinosaurs were mostly eliminated🦖
and mammals were promoted to take their place.

Earth's face was probably just a coincidence😅
and it must have looked completely innocent.

But the scope of the impact wasn't just like changing seats in a classroom.
It was on the level of rebuilding the entire school.

• USGS: New evidence for Chicxulub and the K-T boundary

3rd Place: The 'Volcanoes, You've Released a Bit Too Much' Problem

Next up are volcanoes🌋

Earth thought,
If I set off one, well, might as well set off another, and then a whole region,
and its sense of scale gradually became numb😅

・Lava everywhere
・Carbon dioxide everywhere
・Air in chaos
・Ocean oxygen-depleted

From its own perspective, it was just
I only released a little bit🌎

From the perspective of living things, it was
That is not 'a little bit'

• USGS: The relationship between the Siberian Traps and mass extinction (Overview)

• USGS: Research suggesting the initial pulse of the Siberian Traps was the trigger (Nature Communications)

2nd Place: The 'Oxygen Overload' Challenge

Next is this one.

Oxygen concentration, about 35 percent.

Earth, seeing that life was looking energetic,
added a bit too much in a burst of excitement.

The results:
・Giant dragonflies
・Giant centipedes
・Giant forests
・Air with a spartan specification

It looks energetic, but it's actually dangerous.
Here, Earth finally realizes,
Oh, maybe I overdid it,
and notices 🥤💥

• National Geographic: Carboniferous Period (Explanation of oxygen reaching 35 percent)

• Smithsonian: The Age of Oxygen (Explanation of oxygen rising to a maximum of 35 percent)

1st Place: Just 75 percent for now

And now, the grand 1st place.

About 75 percent of the world's living things 😱

This number is at the level of clearing out
three-quarters of the world during an inventory check.

Earth's excitement
was sorted out because the environment changed 🌎

Nobody asked for the living things' excitement 😅

It's often said casually, but it's not casual at all.

• Britannica: Mass extinction event (Definition and overview)

Conclusion

Looking back this far, Earth has
overdone it,
reflected on it,
and calmed down a little again,
repeating this cycle 🌎

The current world is in a fairly calm mode when viewed historically.

That is precisely why this ranking is 👑
something you can read with a laugh, and at the same time, something you can gently keep in your heart, knowing that we just happen to be at peace right now.

Laughing softly, but not forgetting too much.
That kind of distance might be just right for getting along with Earth 🙂