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while it is a great tragedy that the coral reefs are dying, it should be noted that the Earth has been here before and come back from it Nobody's worried the r
by ip26 8y ago
while it is a great tragedy that the coral reefs are dying, it should be noted that the Earth has been here before and come back from it
Nobody's worried the reefs will never come back. They are worried they won't be back anytime soon and we'll have to make do for the next hundred thousand years.
- eloff 8y agoYou're off by about two orders of magnitude there, judging from recent history. But even then, that's a long time from a human perspective, I think we could re-plant reefs the same way we replant forests on timescales of a couple generations or less. Edit: obviously it would be better if we didn't have to do that, but that ship has sailed.
- irrational 8y ago2 orders of magnitude in which direction?
- 100-times 8y agoAnd isn't easier to say how many multiples of ten, instead of trying to sound smart with the ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE?