but that's much less of a problem to overcome, especially if the earth in general is warmer...
Global climate change with an increase of overall temperature doesn't equate to warmer temperatures in any particular area. You might just get really hot summers with winters remaining equally cold, potentially even colder due to, say, jet streams diverting and allowing more polar air to come down south.
A report confirms that tuna are on the path of the dodo.
Tuna going extinct is one of those things I seriously can't believe will ever happen. I mean you buy them in tiny cans, the fish are enormous and they've been part of various memes since forever. A world without tuna is near unimaginable, yet I can see myself being an old person and having his grandkids be amazed that I remember when you could just buy tuna at any supermarket.
A report confirms that tuna are on the path of the dodo.
Tuna going extinct is one of those things I seriously can't believe will ever happen. I mean you buy them in tiny cans, the fish are enormous and they've been part of various memes since forever. A world without tuna is near unimaginable, yet I can see myself being an old person and having his grandkids be amazed that I remember when you could just buy tuna at any supermarket.
We've had species of banana go extinct. Everything short of roaches and ants is vulnerable.
One of things I'll bring often to other people when they mention the environment is how a shitty condition the baby boomers and the generations before them have made it. My generation and the ones after mine have inherited a sick planet which we are expected to keep on life support or save. Considering humanities general approach I don't have much hope for this ball of dirt.
The hybrid fish-plant closed loop hydroponics systems will keep us well fed, our starvation isn't really a risk.
Also we aren't really in a position where we could really eradicate life in the oceans. The vast, vast majority of the oceanic ecosystem exists at a microscopic level. Talking about the oceans going extinct by talking about fish is like saying a forest is dying because we're finding less apes and monkeys whilst ignoring the trees and fungi.
I believe we are changing the balance of species living in the ocean into something we don't find as appealing. However, I seriously doubt we will be able to eradicate life in the oceans to any significant degree. There is too much potential energy in the form of sunlight, nutrients and water for it to become a desert. It is changing into something unknown and unfamiliar to us, but I doubt it will spawn a global extinction event.
Species rise and fall, they are doing so much quicker now. I just hope what turns out to be the new dominant species in the ocean are edible to man.
I also doubt mankind can alter it's behavior in time to save the current balance, barring some paradigm changing energy source like robotechnology.
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I sincerely hope that we don't end up a "The Road" type scenario. Destroying our worlds biosphere and slowly watching the Earth fall apart around us would be a horrible, long death amongst the worst way to die for the lot of us.
Nice to know that our world will be destroyed thanks to mankinds lust for money.
We really are a terrible people.
Predictable people, self-interested people, short-sighted people. But I wouldn't say that we are "terrible" people overall.
Its hard to get somebody who's scrubbing toilets all day to pay for his shithole apartment to get fired up about a widely misunderstood crisis that requires long-term, broad thinking to really appreciate.
And there are a lot more of those guys than rich people and power brokers (who don't see it or care for another set of reasons).
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This cannot be good.
I speculate that's the East Asia scenario. The West will have riots. The Chinese will save face and starve.
Tuna going extinct is one of those things I seriously can't believe will ever happen. I mean you buy them in tiny cans, the fish are enormous and they've been part of various memes since forever. A world without tuna is near unimaginable, yet I can see myself being an old person and having his grandkids be amazed that I remember when you could just buy tuna at any supermarket.
We've had species of banana go extinct. Everything short of roaches and ants is vulnerable.
Also we aren't really in a position where we could really eradicate life in the oceans. The vast, vast majority of the oceanic ecosystem exists at a microscopic level. Talking about the oceans going extinct by talking about fish is like saying a forest is dying because we're finding less apes and monkeys whilst ignoring the trees and fungi.
Species rise and fall, they are doing so much quicker now. I just hope what turns out to be the new dominant species in the ocean are edible to man.
I also doubt mankind can alter it's behavior in time to save the current balance, barring some paradigm changing energy source like robotechnology.
Let's just hope we can't fuck up the ocean enough to cause one of these.
This.
Every species of fish going extinct is sad. The thought of everybody in the world slowly suffocating is terrifying.
Predictable people, self-interested people, short-sighted people. But I wouldn't say that we are "terrible" people overall.
Its hard to get somebody who's scrubbing toilets all day to pay for his shithole apartment to get fired up about a widely misunderstood crisis that requires long-term, broad thinking to really appreciate.
And there are a lot more of those guys than rich people and power brokers (who don't see it or care for another set of reasons).