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Fire transformed humanity. It allowed cooking — which expanded our diet, shrank our guts, and grew our brains. It enabled metallurgy, ceramics, glass, and ultimately civilization itself. Without it, our species would be smaller, weaker, less intelligent, and forever stuck in the Stone Age.

If atmospheric oxygen rose from 21% to 42%, paper would catch fire from a single spark, lightning storms would ignite vast wildfires, and giant insects might become possible — but the world would be a tinderbox.