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Old 10-21-2022, 04:34 PM   #2890
Lanny_McDonald
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Originally Posted by troutman View Post
Permafrost thawing keeps me up at night.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science...ctic-landscape
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1110722

Talk me off the ledge.
There is no talking you off the ledge counselor. If you have a chance you can look at the work of Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of natural resources, ecology, and evolutionary biology from University of Arizona, he has suggested we are in the midst of an extinction level event where humans could be wiped out quickly, within the decade. I personally think he has a very extreme and jaded view, but when you read or listen to any of his takes, he approaches the issue very pragmatically and understands how things are linked together as an ecosystem and how the failure of one part of the chain causes the whole system to fail.

We are in the midst of a very dangerous time and every day we fail to react is just another that causes our entire ecosystem to fail. We lose micro-organisms and the food chain fails. Increases in temperatures and environments more greatly impact small organisms than they do large complex organisms, but the larger organisms are equally impacted by the failure of those small organisms as every member of the ecosystem. We fail to understand the butterfly effect of the impact we have on our ecosystem, which makes it that much worse. McPherson suggests we are already done and there is nothing we can do about it. We've already done so much damage to the ecosystem that the simple organisms are already on their way to extinction, which means we are already on our way to extinction.
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