Bright side - If the oceans acidify and the algae stops being able to produce oxygen then the wildfires will stop.
Was half expecting this to be a headline explaining why this could spell good news for investors.
I hate this fucking country of fascists. How can one feel anything but despair?
Earth’s death will save me the trouble of reattempting suicide.
Shit I feel that. I've just kind of surrendered to the winds of fate lately, only way I can deal with this crap. I'm just living in the moment and enjoying whatever I have while I have it. Imagine putting money in a 401k to save up for retirement in the scorched wasteland of the 2070s when I could just buy drugs and alcohol now and hopefully die in a couple decades from heart failure instead.
Becoming the favorite uncle with tales of how in 2029 you could get cans of tuna for just $10
Shit shit shit
There are no foundations of the ecosystem more important than bugs, plants and marine life. oceans acidifying... could Earth life handle that?
I'd say earth life can probably handle that. You know, the extremophiles. Microscopic lil dudes.
I mean, earth bounced back after the Permian-Triassic extinction event, so, probably?
I don't think people really understand just how close of a call that was. Or they also don't really appreciate just how amazing and unique and precious life is in general. The human race isn't worth the sacrifice of all future life on the only planet we've ever know to be capable of having it. As far as we know, what is on earth is fucking it and at the very least life is an incredibly rare phenomenon let alone an entire planet full of it, if I were to believe in any sort of divinity or that earth is special it's because of how absolutely I likely life is. We have it here and in absolute spades. That alone is weird and amazing. We are a pretty neat life form, don't get me wrong but I'd rather see every single one of us dead than another species of animal go extinct. Not eco fash, cause I am a human and therefore would like to see us do better but I'm not going to say the world wouldn't have been better off had we never left the trees. I don't think we're compatible with a sustainable planet ever. We're an animal ourselves but holy fuck we are the ultimate invasive species that brings other invasive species, we are absolutely hazardous to all life we can't manipulate to our own advantage be it plant, animal, fungus, bacteria or otherwise. I'll do whatever to keep going and try to make the human race better, but I'm honestly pretty sure we're just worse news than mosquitos and the flu. Even in the stone age we were absolute extinction machines. And just cause we had the power to turn a mini ice age into a co2 catastrophe absolutely does NOT mean we have the power to reverse it even if we tried, we kinda did but the overall idea we can undo any damage we do is what got us into this mess. I generally just don't think the earth can sustain an industrial human population at all. I'm all the way here for ingenuity if it occurs, but what we never have really seemed to learn as a a species in general is that there is a game over screen. And i think we will most likely reduce the earth to a planet only unique for it's water at least for a few billion years. Some life will probably survive but what that life would be would basically restart evolution from scratch (I know it wouldn't really cause that's not how evolution works but you get the metaphor here, it's a hard reset for earth)
Barely. And that's no guarantee it'll happen again. All life on the planet could in fact be wiped out. Life by definition is not invincible. This whole thing could go away and it could be our fault. Sustaining life isn't the default state of the earth and the planet itself is entirely indifferent to habitability. Life doesn't always find a way and it's very possible we could destroy it.
Yeah, take a few million years but its been acidy before. Not great for almost everything alive now, of course, except jellyfish who are gonna have a great time.
If oxygen is so important, why was it poisonous to life when it first formed??
https://hexbear.net/post/3533136
Apparently the trajectory on our planet's temperature hasn't been seen since before vertebrate life even existed!
People have been calling for a moratorium on climate science under the rationale that at this point it's just needless stress on climate scientists and I'm starting to agree. This year alone has just been a constant drumbeat of bad news.
