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CO2 pollution is even more dangerous than we thought
| Damn that's just depressing. There is nowhere to run on this increasingly inhospitable planet. We have entered a global wartime era as teh climate crisis and overshoot strike every single facet of ecosystems and civilisations on the planet: our food security, our democracy, and even our immediate survival.
| And let's not ignore the elephant in the room called capitalism. Capitalism will bankrupt every future generation to maintain the comfort of a few thousand people. And we're told every other ideology is impractical.
It amazes me how many people believe suicide by capitalism is the only practical path. It's bizarre.
We need to get our shit together and finally develop some sufficient class conciousness or we and future generations will suffer greatly for it.
| this is why jellyfish is the most perfect life form. jellyfish likes acid and eutrophication. jellyfish is over 500 million years old and has survived every extinction event since oxygen. long after every trace of humanity has been erased by time jellyfish will still thrive.
| K
| This is another good reason to go to mars!
| >>977519
Really? Because that's kinda cool tbh. Some species also lives forever, no?
>>9728ed
I'm much too hangover to respond to your posts right now
| co2 is good actually. maybe not in our oceans but in our bodies.
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/co2.shtml
| >>977576 Mars is the worst place to coloanlize, the moon is a better first step. Also the rich want to destroy this planet then fuck off into space so this is what they want.
| >>977629 I want to go to space but not as some adventure for ultra wealthy bastards. I want earth to be looked after and space exploration to return to the state sector.
| >>977629 people say Mars because they think that failure of a billionaire is gonna do something. He never intended to help people.
His whole hyperloop thing was to prevent a rail system from being built so that more people would buy Teslas.
Mars is literally the worst place to try to colonize because the dust in the atmosphere can literally melt it's way through anything. Even if the dust wasn't corrosive, it would still kill us with cancer within weeks.
Venus is actually better
| >>978118
Mars can't even hold a proper athmosphere apparently. If anyone tried to terraform it all the gases would go into space.
Venus is a different beast entirely. How the hell can you clean an entire planet of dense as fuck toxic gas before the terraforming starts? Imagine how much energy you must spend to blow it all into the sun without distrupting the planets angular momentum or orbit.
| >>978139
I remember watching on PBS SpaceTime that venus colonization is planned to be "cloud cities" if it happens in the near future and that full terrforming would take thousands of years, and would still be a better option than Mars realistically speaking.
Gotta stop looking for outs, this rock is what we got, don't break it.
| >>978159
I watched that too. I wonder how realistic a floating autonomous research base might be in our lifetime or our kids lifetimes. But moving people there? I have my doubts it'll happen anytime soon.
>Gotta stop looking for outs, this rock is what we got, don't break it.
Wise words. It's also easier and cheaper to fix the problems we have here on earth than to have humanity become shut-ins on some inhospitable planet.
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| Every year, there's more CO2 pumped into the air. It doesn't get locked up in plants like algae and trees, so it dissolves into the ocean. This produces carbonic acid, lowering the pH of the water. It's a serious problem that I feel doesn't get talked about enough. If Aquaman was real, he would be waging war against the surface dwellers over this bullshit.
https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification