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[–] drmoose 140 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The fact that "mommy, what's a ?" future is becoming a reality should be a fucking emberassment for all of us. Yet no one will pause their fish consumption because "it's tasty". The earth is being killed for literal entertainment.

[–] riodoro1 33 points 1 year ago

But muh traditional cuisine.

People are too stupid to realize that what worked for us 50 years ago doesnt anymore because there is almost three times as many of us.

Still, every country out there is promoting breeding and having children. Everyone is trying to save our species from extinction as we’re surpassing 10 billion in numbers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped eating fish many years ago and mention ecosystem collapse, overfishing a d bycatch to whomever asks me why (or when I feel like it).

The most I think I've done is gotten one friend to reduce their fish consumption.

Humans do not care.

[–] azdood85 10 points 1 year ago

Doesnt matter what we do as individuals when some nations Cough China Cough have entire fleets of state sanctioned and sponsored illegal fishing/trawling poachers.

You can literally watch hundreds of them gathered on the MarineTraffic app and thats only the ones being tracked.

They just go planet to planet like locusts consuming all the resources and then moving on. Whoops, got a little carried away there. But you get the idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I thought this story was satire for a second. Now I'm sad 😢

[–] rayrven 6 points 1 year ago

100% accurate - I feel its an unfortunate future we will see during our generation itself

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 year ago

Polar bears have no future with an ice-free arctic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"mommy, what's a ~~<~~ animal ~~>~~?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

Ninety percent are young specimens that arrive without fat reserves and with empty stomachs," she said, and stressed that all samples taken have tested negative for avian influenza.

They fucking starved to death :'(

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TL;DR nobody knows. It has happened in smaller numbers but not like this. People think over fishing (but a similar event previously in Brazil with no known cause)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm waaaaay out of my waters here, but if I had to take a wild guess: over fishing, changing of chemistry of the oceans do to climate change and yeah rising of median temperature (as we can all feel) of the world .. in summary: my guess is human activity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The higher the temperature the less oxygen in the water

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I meant, and in a broader sense, we just leave it at: scientist are baffled and do not know the answer when I think we all know damn well, almost sure it has something to do with human activity and the disruption it causes in nature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a good place to start looking for answers, at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, small friends. 😔 We have done you wrong.

[–] fiestapinguino 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I studied and lived with these species in Punta Tombo Argentina. Their food source is known to be moving further north. But we also saw these catastrophic events from time to time where the juvies had a super high mortality rate in their first year away

[–] SuddenDownpour 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their food source is known to be moving further north

Why?

[–] fiestapinguino 2 points 1 year ago

That's the weird part, because usually species will move to poles from climate change related stressors. The waters of coastal Patagonia have had issues with fishery mismanagement so that could explain the depleted stock. I have to talk to the researchers on the project to see if they're learning more about the movement of the fish

[–] Chromebby 27 points 1 year ago

This is so so tragic. 😞

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bill Gates has struck back against linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Linus Torvalds was reading from "The C Programming Language" to a group of elementary school kids when his bodyguard whispered the news.

[–] Ultra980 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, what did microsoft do this time?

[–] 0nXYZ 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried to force them to upgrade to windows 11 and the penguins said “we’d rather die!”

[–] Ultra980 3 points 1 year ago

And they took that literally...

[–] rayrven 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder when global governments wake up and realise they are sawing the branch they sit on, at this rate i shudder when i think of my kids and their future.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There is no global government. The world is highly fragmented. Most countries themselves are highly fragmented. Even some countries that would have you believe otherwise.

Also, we are too used to the concept of superpowers being countries. That's no longer the case. While countries can still be superpowers, so can corporations. We already have corporations that could fund some of the world's biggest armed forces, but so far they have had no reason to. This isn't a new concept either, think back to the way the British Empire colonised/invaded India for example.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Great points. And similarly with the East India Company, those multinationals sit above states. This time it's not just one—Britain (or the Netherlands, e.g. with the Dutch EIC)—it's all of them. With BlackRock and Vanguard near the top. With maybe <20 exceptions.

Saying that, it suggests that if there is anything like a global government, it's comprised of a handful of billionaires and their most loyal servants. If a state doesn't do what they say, they'll arrange for you to be sanctioned, bombed, couped, etc.

[–] rayrven 4 points 1 year ago

I agree, i guess i meant to say the governments of the world when i said that, but you articulated important points- corporations are really becoming bigger than governments and thats not good for the future

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already have noticed many decades ago It's just that profit comes first since the people in charge won't really feel the worst of the change while currently making bank from lobbying

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People ordering seafood are in charge.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already have noticed many decades ago It's just that profit comes first since the people in charge won't really feel the worst of the change while currently making bank from lobbying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Naomi Klein reports in This Changes Everything (IIRC) that the White House's own scientific team warned it that climate catastrophe was in it's way in the 1960s!

[–] Lenins2ndCat 12 points 1 year ago

"Haha nothing to worry about guys" - this thread.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] pepperonisalami 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm all supportive for the reduction of meat consumption, but I believe even collective individual action won't cut it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every little bit matters. Next time it might be 19 instead of 20 of them. That's a win in my books.

Edit: 1999 instead of 2000 I meant

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[–] Tag365 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are penguins being stranded on the beach like they're whales? That's disturbing to see.

[–] shalafi 10 points 1 year ago

Massive die offs happen all the time. We're just around to record these things now.

Having said that, seems alarming they were starved. Much to unpack there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The comments here are at the same level of any mainstream platform. You made it lemmy! You are mainstream now!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
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