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[–] [email protected] 118 points 11 months ago (22 children)

Man, oceanographers have been shouting this for decades. And let's just throw marine biologists/marine chemists in there as well. Ocean currents are stupidly powerful, to have them stop is scary beyond comparison. The warning temperature lifting the calcium carbonate compensation depth, literally acidifying the ocean past the point of habitability for everything but jelly fish... Good bye oxygen. It was fun hanging with y'all, break out the good stuff because you aren't handing it down to the next generation.

[–] Lepsea 56 points 11 months ago (17 children)

It was fun hanging with y'all, break out the good stuff because you aren't handing it down to the next generation.

Parents often say that they love their children and would do anything for them, but they didn't love them enough to give their children a habitable future.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (15 children)

I don't think that's fair.

If there was something they could do as an individual which would help only their individual child have a habitable future, they would absolutely do it.

Thing is, everything they can do either only works if we all do it or only helps every child equally (a tiiiny bit) while costing the parent individually.

It's a coordination problem. Humans lack the structures to coordinate as a species (the largest unit of coordination we have is a nation and even that doesn't work well).

[–] Makeshift 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“What I do won’t matter” said by every individual is exactly how nothing changes.

Sure the ocean won’t suffer for the loss of a few individual drops of water. But if there are no drops of water at all, there is no ocean.

We are all drops.

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