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42. We need to pay attention - right now, not 50 years from now

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 11:37 PM

Apr 2016

We need to pay attention - right now, not 50 years from now - to what is happening on the planet we have conquered and are supposed to be protecting. Marine life can't tell us why depleted oxygen levels threaten them. Only we, the human species, have the ability to understand the threat – and do something about it.

The Planet we have conquered. That's what we do. We take it over, build it, destroy it, conquer it. We have never made plans to care for it. People truly are a virus on this planet. Sadly we will take so many other lifeforms out while we destroy ourselves.

We're quickly reaching the tipping point and we just decide on what we leave in the time capsules instead.

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It May Soon Be Too Late to Save the Seas [View all] IDemo Apr 2016 OP

K&R for exposure. JEB Apr 2016 #1

one of our major parties denies this is even happening & they control the purse strings. spanone Apr 2016 #2

I keep this in my favorites as a reminder. rusty quoin Apr 2016 #3

So very scary and so very sad.... Silver_Witch Apr 2016 #4

when the fuel from those 3 reactors was "lost" in f questionseverything Apr 2016 #26

I don't think you appreciate what a miniscule fraction of the water in the pacific that is Takket Apr 2016 #32

I know...it is a wee bit frightening... Silver_Witch Apr 2016 #39

Thank you for posting this in GD. Duppers Apr 2016 #5

Surely, here at Titanic Underground, it's more important to move on to the next personal attack... villager Apr 2016 #6

Thank you of posting this. The ramped up human pursuit of profit from the bjo59 Apr 2016 #7

Republicans Do Suck But No One Here Including Me Lives Greenhouse Gas Neutral Yallow Apr 2016 #8

Humans deserve to go extinct. Quantess Apr 2016 #9

Speak for yourself! A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #11

Still, humans are basically parasites on this living organism of a planet... vkkv Apr 2016 #14

If I am a parasite, I am a naturally occuring one. A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #20

Yep, and we're intelligent enough to believe that we are all 'that special' in the universe. That a vkkv Apr 2016 #21

After typing what I did below, I'll say "Speak for yourself" A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #29

Fortunately, at least two historical social staples are in a great decline: vkkv Apr 2016 #31

LOL.... A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #34

You argue successfully and thanks for the Wordsworth. Never have I known of any appalachiablue Apr 2016 #44

Where did I ever say that we should "throw it all away"? Please don't put words in other peoples' vkkv Apr 2016 #22

Lighten up, Clarence A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #24

I see, you were responding to me about my parasite comparison directly while vkkv Apr 2016 #25

Oh, is it a "foolish" idea that humams will be extict within 100 years or so? Quantess May 2016 #45

What?!? A HERETIC I AM May 2016 #47

Don't you take that tone with me, young whippersnapper!! Quantess May 2016 #50

I didn't reproduce. Quantess Apr 2016 #17

Neither did I A HERETIC I AM Apr 2016 #19

"All we have to do is stop poking the wound and she'll heal herself SammyWinstonJack May 2016 #46

It's not too late, not by a long shot. A HERETIC I AM May 2016 #48

It's hard to disagree. We did do this. ohnoyoudidnt Apr 2016 #12

the planet is fine Fred Drum Apr 2016 #15

Yep... vkkv Apr 2016 #23

Boycott Life! BKH70041 Apr 2016 #30

Spoken like a true Clintonista. Katashi_itto May 2016 #49

Agree Completely. n/t sylvanus Apr 2016 #38

If that's true, so do you. desmiller May 2016 #51

Holy F***! vkkv Apr 2016 #10

If this truly happens as suggested in the full article then we can expect famine across most vkkv Apr 2016 #13

I'll miss seafood. nt TeamPooka Apr 2016 #16

Over-fishing isn't helping either malaise Apr 2016 #18

Kerry spoke of this in 1997 and again on campaign trail 2002-4 blm Apr 2016 #27

I don't really buy this Visionary Apr 2016 #28

actually......... Takket Apr 2016 #33

How would you refute Nat Center for Atmospheric Research findings if you had the camera? blm Apr 2016 #35

Whenever I'm after solid scientific findings, IDemo Apr 2016 #36

; ) blm Apr 2016 #37

At least two events were related to the same mechanism nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #43

why do we let these 90 universities support the global warming denial? certainot Apr 2016 #40

IPPC expected this, but not this fast nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #41

We need to pay attention - right now, not 50 years from now Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #42