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    There are always algues and fish unless we go out of our way and poison the ocean.

    But I can’t imagine that no plant will adapt or is already adapted. Some palm trees, some weed will survive.

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      unless we go out of our way and poison the ocean

      We don’t really have to do anything extra. The CO2 alone is already acidifying the ocean in addition to the temperature increases that also kill things.

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        Nothing that can’t have been before, when all the coal that is still in the ground was free CO2.

        Downvoters, is this wrong? I need to know. Please correct me.

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          Well yeah sure. And the entire Earth could be vaporized and the rest of the universe wouldn’t be affected at all. It’s all about what context and scope we want to discuss.

          Most of the CO2 in coal was trapped 300 million years ago. I am going to assume without further research that we as a civilization would absolutely not like to return to the atmosphere composition of 300,000,000 BCE.

          I know. Cry me a river as you take yourselves out, right? If we take most of the biosphere with us though, that’s even more tragic on top of everything.

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            it’s the industrial farming that will be difficult.

            No, we don’t want that. Difficult was an understatement. It’s nature that will survive, not us.

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              It’s nature that will survive, not us.

              This is a good thing to point out, because we create many of our own problems by trying to pretend that humanity is a separate and distinct thing from nature.

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      We’re doing that regularly now.

      There are always algues and fish unless we go out of our way and poison the ocean.

      You mean like the Pacific garbage patch? Or the numerous “spills” and effluent pipes that feed directly into the ocean? Perhaps the excessive overfishing or whaling or shark finning? Ocean drilling? Deep water mining? I think we’ve already got that killing the oceans thing managed.

      There is of course always a chance something will survive.

      Edit: like this fucking horse tail I’m fighting in my garden that’s been around for millennia. Dinosaurs walked on that shit. Makes a great addition to fertilizer but God damn already…