One of the key features of ADHD is a never-ending list of things to do. Edward M. Hallowell (who wrote "Driven to Distraction") remarks that perhaps it is the most characteristic feature of ADHD.
Previously, browser crashes saved my sanity— killing dozens of open tabs with fascinating articles.
Now I try to let it go. In a Zen/stoic way, knowing that nothing will happen if I don't read something. This list is an illusion, as there are orders of magnitude more exciting stuff on the Internet.
Another approach I use is "write it down". In this sense, I add to bookmarks (here I am a diehard fan of Pinboard), but NOT with the intention of "read it later", but "if I want to find it again, I know where it is". So I have a cake and eat it too - no "wall of links of shame", and no anxiety that I might have lost a life-changing link.
> Biology, geology, and chemistry all worked together to make the present atmosphere.
No, no one "worked together". And Earth never was an "Alien planet".
Life evolved alongside any challenges that a changing planet posed to it. Including changes induced by organisms. Life still is evolving today and hopefully will continue to do so.
Also titles like this imply that the evolution of our planet and life is somehow guided or is directed to support humans. Or that humans are the crown jewel of evolution.
Au contraire. We are a pretty shitty product of evolution and are a danger to evolution itself since we acquired the intelligence and technology to change DNA of creatures based on our whims. (We did this for centuries through artificial selection. Now we can do it more directly)