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Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is hope: we can cut our carbon emissions that are causing the warming.

Maybe 25 years ago. It's too late now. There is no hope. We could stop 100% of emissions tomorrow and it would change nothing. We've entered the runaway train scenario.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's not entirely true. If we cut off carbon emissions right now, you'll still get the runaway train that is global warming, yes, but it will end sooner or will have a lesser peak temperature increase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is what the oil companies want you to think. The less hope you have the longer they'll keep making profit. They still receive trillions in public subsidies, it's criminal.

We may never go back, but if we did cut 100% of emissions tomorrow, it would have a huge impact. These penguins would have a much better chance for the future, for one, and so would plenty of other species.