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RIP the Great Barrier Reef - It's Dead Jim and we are all responsible
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And their kids will be rich enough off the back of the inheritance that they can continue to live in luxury above all the misery and suffering
Obliterator
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I mean yeah there are people that use religion as an excuse to support and use fossil fuels.
I know someone who says that oil is a natural resource of the Earth God made that can never run out because God built a system in place so that the oil keeps being made forever. And that man has zero impact on global warming it's all just from the sun and a "cycle of the Earth" even though we know for a fact none of this is true.
It's scary people believe these sorts of things
Sweeney Tom
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Why do you think everyone is so interested in Mars colonies etc now? We're not going to be able to physically fuck up this planet much longer, might as well move on to others. It's easier for humans to move on to torturing other things than to stop and think about what they're doing and its consequences.
Yup. They'll actually be able to afford quality food while the rest of us are stuck eating Soylent Green.
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Transhuman
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It may have happened regardless. Species extinctions happen all the time.
But when they eventually come back to see if the surface is habitable they'll be met by the new mutated strain of our descendants. And they're pissed.
KeyBladerXIII
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I was able to see part of it when I visited. It was truly spectacular.
Anybody know what's the second largest coral reef?
Anybody know what's the second largest coral reef?
We should despise ourselves, first.
Sweeney Tom
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I despise us
perfectchaos007
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Its amazing how just a small rise in ocean temperature can kill 400 miles worth of reef.
fluffydelusions
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Wow, I mean I knew eventually it would happen but never did I think it would be that fast. But then I remember having a saltwater fish tank and just how precise the water had to be.
This has been a big political issue in Queensland. We knew this was coming for years and years but every time we got a new report, the usual conservative parties would scream about it being a left-wing conspiracy, that the reef is fine. They even planned a giant new coal mine near it, the largest in the world, and a new port that would plough coal ships through it. It's been one of the most frustrating things to oppose; complete anti-science.
It's not actually dead yet but it is dying and the fight continues to save what's left of it.
It's not actually dead yet but it is dying and the fight continues to save what's left of it.
nelsonroyale
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Musk's idea seems pretty much impossible along the timeline he remarked, but I don't think it was an official comment. Also jetting millions out of the atmosphere, and going back and forth with supplies (which you would need to do since we haven't even accomplished a closed, self sustaining, human supporting ecosystem on a small scale yet), would not have a good effect on the ozone layer...
MarionCB: The right thing to do would probably be to rise up and kick the myopic assholes who poison public opinion and accelerate resource use out...but we, the mostly middle classes, are paralysed by our own person good fortune. The Barrier Reef is something of priceless importance ecologically, aesthetically, and functionally to a degree, but not in the current small minded, greedy, economically-blinded worldview.
Too late for any individual actions to be meaningful or impactful on the grand scheme of things. "We could all try now but just look up in the sky We ain't got no ozone left, we are gonna die Crime and corruption, is the only season Is it 'cause the reason is that we out of time" - Black Eyed Peas
fluffydelusions
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I imagine there will be some kind of domino effect with places like this. The reef sustains a ton of different life and if a huge portion of that dies off like these corals did and another lifeform relies on said portion to live then I imagine they will die off as well and so on and so forth.
nelsonroyale
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Sanity
Jason Frost
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shira
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Politicians & Science is a joke. Nature can't complain or provide evidence so it slides and slides and slides until it's too late
Insane Metal
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That was a very good video, thanks.
PsychoSoldier
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I guess I should prioritize going to see the Reef before it's gone.
Don't wanna be that guy, but there's loads you can do daily to cut down environmental damage. Cut down/out meat and dairy, take train instead of fly or drive, refuse to consume fish unless it's line and hook sourced.
Even if your actual actions are a drop in an ocean, it means those damaging industries are getting less money long-term, so they'll either die (along with their bad practices) or they'll adapt to meet a more ethical consumer base.
Ziltoidia 9
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This is pretty much how I feel look at that picture.
I think this is one of the reasons the income inequality has skyrocketed and they continue to push an agenda that makes it worse on normal people. They are positioning themselves to be in a constant opressive situation so that in 100 years when everything is shit, they will control everything, including the narrative.
See - Snowpiercer
I think this is one of the reasons the income inequality has skyrocketed and they continue to push an agenda that makes it worse on normal people. They are positioning themselves to be in a constant opressive situation so that in 100 years when everything is shit, they will control everything, including the narrative.
See - Snowpiercer
Great Video, thanks
always crazy bacon
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"Greed, for want of another word is good" is the quote.
SpaceCadetKeon
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Ugh, could we have picked a worse possible time to make a climate change denier POTUS?
always crazy bacon
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So, you don't know about fish farms?
PandaPandaPanda
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"why didn't they try harder to warn us? Blame liberals for what happened"
teruterubozu
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Same thing is happening in Hawaii too. Snorkeling and diving has been getting depressing.
Phrozenflame500
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damn chinese killing the great barrier reef to keep up their """""climate change""""" hoax smh
Space Runaway
Member
Sad, to say the least...
andythinkpad
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Our children will learn honey bees and barrier reef in Museum of Natural History.
Yeah, there's still going to be pockets of life to see here and there for tourists, but the overall reef won't ever be the same in our lifetimes. I need to get my SO his scuba cert and get over there, but that's not cheap from the US.
SugarDaddy
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DammitI had visiting the Great Barrier Reef on my list of things to do within my lifetime, so fucked up and sad that it's completely gone now.
It's not gone
Aztechnology
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They'll get to see it in UHD, it's just like being there... Except you know, without the life.
NullPointer
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So true.
My mother - almost a caricature of right wing newspeak these days - thinks man-caused climate change is impossible, and 'arrogant' as only God could have that kind of power over the Earth. And that if we're worried about carbon we should worry more about volcanoes and ocean waves crashing or some other nonsense.
This is the level of denial and justifications for non-responsibility that what we're dealing with, at least in the US.
Its maddening.
Can you elaborate? I understand Chinese manufacturing is at least partly to blame for warmer climates, but is there a direct association in this case?
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