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TSiegelast Saturday at 10:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've posted this before here. The science is screaming that these ecosystems cannot recover on any meaningful timescale because these modules form over millions of years and produce the only oxygen available in the depths of the ocean where they're located. It would be like clear cutting a forest and it growing back over the course of millions of years. It's an insane thing to do, and we as a society we're showing we have no care for anything but ourselves in this moment in time. We're choosing to permanently destroy the last best preserved ecosystems on this planet essentially for good.


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usrnmlast Saturday at 10:25 PM

> we're showing we have no care for anything but ourselves in this moment in time

This is very consistent with the whole history of our species, and I don't think there ever was a moment in time when this was any different

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JumpCrisscrosslast Saturday at 10:48 PM

> It would be like clear cutting a forest and it growing back over the course of millions of years

It’s closer to filling a rainforest with a nitrogen atmosphere. You’re literally removing the ecosystem’s means to respire.