Utter tragedy. The worst part about this "discovery" is that we knew it was coming; I've been reading scientists' warnings about how changing ocean temperatures would cause food chain collapses for decades. More to come...
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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Subplot of "Soylent Green". I used to think it was the main plot, but then learned the problem wasn't Soylent Green or its makeup, but the indifference of the people throughout the movie when they learned things were not as they appeared. Old movie, still applicable.
Gonna be a lot of discoveries like this in the coming years. What a fucking tragedy we’ve made of everything.
It’s not “we.” I don’t control food chain issues, I don’t control pollution and production regulations or war, I don’t get huge dividends from investments whenever a company decides to do the economic thing instead of the ecologically responsible thing. They do it to US. Don’t forget that.
Hey, you buy stuff and didn't recycle every single thing you ever bought (even though most recycling ends up in a landfill anyway) so it's your fault.
I’m literally Satan
@Jimbabwe yeah, I'm not really enjoying my ringside seat to the destruction and death of a planet. It's going to get much worse.
By "love to eat" we mean need to eat. This is so sad.
Man, I can't believe the wind farms didn't stop at killing whales but had to kill their food too.
/s because it'll probably be needed