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Have we ever as a species successfully changed our behavior on a scale needed to address something like climate change and underwater oxygen loss? What would be the closest “we’ve got to change or perish” moment we’ve successfully navigated?
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Please make an effort to engage more substantially with reality, especially on this forum.
Oxigen is ALSO, and perhaps in vast quantities produced at the bottom of the ocean, by lumps of metal that react with sea water (aka Dark Oxygen). Interestingly, there are now massive marine harvesting operations targeting that very ore. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discove...
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gases-solubility-water-d_...
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dumping nutrients into ocean funnily helps ocean ecosystems to get more productive. who could have thought, eh?
It's not clear if you're just trolling or don't understand the problem. It's real, and documented: https://mississippiriverdelta.org/learning/explaining-the-gu... If it's a thirst for librul teers, sorry to disappoint you.
This is normal. This is how our Earth the planet works.
I do not know why you think only aerobic biota has a divine right to live.
Do you now feel yourself not completely intellectually honest?
Have we ever as a species successfully changed our behavior on a scale needed to address something like climate change and underwater oxygen loss? What would be the closest “we’ve got to change or perish” moment we’ve successfully navigated?
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We did a reasonable job with ozone depletion, but that has much lower costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
The cost of not addressing it is more distributed: at some point you can't go outside anymore since the UV index is so high, sunscreen can't block high-intensity UV-B and UV-C, plants get damaged to the point of catastrophic crop failures... you can live in denial about climate change in developed countries (for a limited time anyway) but ozone affects everyone.
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I think that the banng of HFCs is a pretty good example of collective action. Also, it's important to realize that climate change, as we best understand it right now, is not a "or perish" type of situation. RCP8.5 has now been soundly eliminated from the set of potential climate trajectories, so what we're left with is a question of 1) how much mass migration will be forced upon the world, with concomitant wars and s…
No matter how poor you think the US is, the average person in the rest of the world is indeed poorer.
I cannot for the life of me understand the increasing popularity of socialism and communism in the US today. Those forms of government have a proven track record of failure.
Have we ever as a species successfully changed our behavior on a scale needed to address something like climate change and underwater oxygen loss? What would be the closest “we’ve got to change or perish” moment we’ve successfully navigated?
Food? I.E. avoiding population collapse due to lack of ecosystem carrying capacity? Eliminating famine? etc.
Oxigen is ALSO, and perhaps in vast quantities produced at the bottom of the ocean, by lumps of metal that react with sea water (aka Dark Oxygen). Interestingly, there are now massive marine harvesting operations targeting that very ore. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discove...
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Instead of immediately making this an us vs them with theoretical climate deniers how about we focus on talking about how to improve science communication so that the article isn't something simultaneously dense and vague enough to be easily dismissed. I'll pick on the US, because blaming India and China will incite their little public defenders to bury the thread. The Gulf of Mexico is currently downstream of the US…
Go team!