I am so disappointed in not hearing one iota on this new documentary from DU members

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45. I understand, but there's a difference between making stuff up and what I think the poster did.

What is happening is alarming, and on a scale that is difficult to comprehend. It is easy for a layperson grappling with the reality of environmental degradation and its consequences for human life to go from "life in the oceans could be seriously transformed, with many species facing the threat of extinction" to "the end of all life in the ocean." I certainly want to encourage the use of precise terms, but I personally prefer to approach it from a perspective of understanding and finding common ground. In the long run I have found it more effective, and I make friends out of people with whom I agree about the generalities, if not the particulars.

In reality, we will never be able to eliminate all overly alarmist claims--with recent findings tending towards the more dramatic and destructive side of previous predictions, it is hard to say precisely where unsubstantiated alarmism even begins. However, where there is one ostensibly hyperbolic claim, there will be a dozen well-funded deniers with even less scientifically valid worldviews using it to discredit all of the very good science out there. Those are the people who should be the subjects of dismissal and scorn.