• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    6 months ago

    Yeah, more CO2 in the atmosphere and higher temps would be absolutely terrible but somewhat “livable”, but acidic oceans ? If most plankton and algae die, we’re done and there would be nothing we could do about it.

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        6 months ago

        The next century or so will be the story of how we triggered a vicious cycle of multiple tipping points, but most importantly “nobody could have predicted this” … except the millions of scientists who were ignored because of systemic species-wide greed and ignorance.

        The entire history of humanity will be summed up by “Talking chimps destroy own planet, and themselves”.

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          6 months ago

          “Talking chimps destroy own planet, and themselves”

          More like “All chimps listens to the most charismatic chimps even though they are narcissistic idiots and that leads to their destruction”

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          6 months ago

          It will be interesting to learn the exact conditions for each of the tipping points, if only it wasn’t our environment. Tipping

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      6 months ago

      Once jellyfish become the only remaining sea creature, just eat those