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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

We can't even work together to stop genocides being broadcast live. Any hope of working together to protect the environment, especially when it is unprofitable and requires sacrifices to standard of living, is a pipe dream.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

The great thing about low pH oceans is that it would snowball so quickly once it gets past a certain threshold, that we would have barely any time to react. It would kill us all in a matter of months at most.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

high pH oceans

Spend your summers playing at the bleach

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Oh yeah, it's low pH not high 😁

Nice pun though !

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

This song captures your comment perfectly IMHO: Upbeat on the outside, dark as hell on the inside.,

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not 'just' about plants and algae dying, it's about the tipping point for the climate. Oceans are a huge carbon sink, considering all the carbonates that Coral Reefs, Clam Shells and stuff like that are made of. The more acidic it becomes, the more those carbonates will react to become carbon dioxide, that will end up in the atmosphere, thus still enhancing the greenhouse effect.

Bit of a vicious cycle there.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I disagree with that prediction.

The planet will be fine with it. Life will adapt to it. Even humans will survive it, as a species.

But our modern inustrialized civilizations will collapse.

The paradoxical thing is, that those greedy, wealthy elites who are mostly responsible don't care, because they think they're the ones to survive, when in reality, their wealth and power relies the most on the status quo of the rules of society.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours 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"