Comment by sidewndr46
11 hours ago
Given the current trajectory of whale populations, 'we' probably won't be seeing that. Maybe in many generations of humans.
11 hours ago
Given the current trajectory of whale populations, 'we' probably won't be seeing that. Maybe in many generations of humans.
Well, the population growth probably isn't linear, so maybe?
Warming will kill off most of the systems these animals depend on within 30 years.
Yeah, totally in 30 years. And in 2006-2009 Antarctica became ice free.
Why put a number on it? Every number so far has been wrong. Can we agree on the negative impacts of humans on an environment conducive to humanity without putting obviously wrong timings on predictions? I bet your intention is to provoke urgency but to most people it just causes an eye roll because it's not true, whereas the underlying ideas are true.
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And will give way to many which thrive or evolve to thrive in hotter climates?
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Imagine you killed off all of humanity save for a couple people in Muncie, IN. How long until the next Shakespeare or Einstein emerges? Better yet, a properly heterogeneous culture?