Poll of the Day > ATTENTION: Adjl. (GET YOUR ASS IN HERE NOW!)

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I just heard that because of what we have done to marine mammals and sharks, that it will have devastating consequences on plankton... and that will have huge implications on our oxygen levels in a world where we are already polluting like motherfuckers.

Long story short... the oceans will be void of life by 2048.

Tell me this is bullshit. Im freaking out, man.

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Yeah we have fucked up all the shit

Shout out to all the staunch capitalists, conservatives(such an ironic name), free market libertarians, and the countless people who just cant be bothered to give a fuck

Yall won. Weve been trying for decades to stop this shit and just communicate with yall, but you wanted to just call us liars so that a few already rich assholes could reap the bounty of our ecosystem for a slighter larger fortune that they would never even consider sharing with you.

Your prize is that you get to see what is more than likely the beginning of the descent of human civilization back into a new dark age. One that we very likely wont emerge from.

We were so close to being something incredible. Something more. We just needed to be a little bit responsible about it.

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Only if there were any giant corporations with lots of money and resources that could help reversing this.
But I guess just sitting on the money and do nothing is good enough.
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HornedLion posted...

the oceans will be void of life by 2048.

https://i.imgur.com/xkupXKf.jpg
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I don't know about any specific timeline, but yeah, the deaths of seemingly unrelated species can have cascading, catastrophic consequences on ecosystems. In practice, I'd say it's the temperature of the oceans that we need to be more concerned about than direct killing of any specific species, though. That's what stands the highest risk of causing algal blooms/crashes that kill off local aquatic life and throw off food chains considerably. That also risks disrupting or even outright shutting down the major ocean currents, which presents other major problems for biodiversity.

Will everything be dead in 2048? Probably not. Are things in a position to get very, very bad, very quickly if we don't change how we approach marine conservation and climate change? Yes.

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It would seem as if Nature is quite unhappy with humans at the moment.