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Vericeon t1_j4souqb wrote
Try not to fall into the “will” mentality. Vote, research, create, communicate, volunteer, whatever you can to switch this to a “might”.
slitytoves t1_j4soyrt wrote
Don't be stupid.
Vericeon t1_j4sufwh wrote
Don’t be a doomer. It’s unproductive.
slitytoves t1_j4suqoz wrote
You do understand the outcome of climate change if it goes unabated means for our survival as a species, right?
Vericeon t1_j4sxwt8 wrote
I’ve read about it a lot. The key word is “if”. We can still make changes in the present to mitigate the impacts. I’m certain we will see some catastrophic events and many extinctions but we may still prevent the very worst that would unfold if we did nothing at all.
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Wagamaga OP t1_j4r3uvw wrote
Nearly two thirds of the sharks and rays that live among the world's corals are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Tuesday, with a warning this could further imperil precious reefs.
Coral reefs, which harbor at least a quarter of all marine animals and plants, are gravely menaced by an array of human threats, including overfishing, pollution and climate change.
Shark and ray species—from apex predators to filter feeders—play an important role in these delicate ecosystems that "cannot be filled by other species", said Samantha Sherman, of Simon Fraser University in Canada and the wildlife group TRAFFIC International.
But they are under grave threat globally, according to the study in the journal Nature Communications, which assessed extinction vulnerability data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to look at 134 species of sharks and rays linked to reefs.
The authors found 59 percent of coral reef shark and ray species are threatened with extinction, an extinction risk almost double that of sharks and rays in general.
Among these, five shark species are listed as critically endangered, as well as nine ray species, all so-called "rhino rays" that look more like sharks than stingrays.
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-thirds-reef-sharks-rays-extinction.html
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slitytoves t1_j4rwj02 wrote
We as humans will kill one too many ecosystems and then we will all die painful and horrible deaths.