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The ocean's "natural state"? What is their natural state, when we look at the past 4 billion years or so? We know of several extinction events in the oceans te
by lazyjones 5y ago
The ocean's "natural state"?
What is their natural state, when we look at the past 4 billion years or so? We know of several extinction events in the oceans tens of millions of years ago, the oceans always recovered without any (known to me anyway) fixed pH value.
- Johnny555 5y agoI'd say the natural state we should aspire to return the environment to is prior to the industrial revolution when we really started messing up the atmospheric CO2 levels. There may be long term climate changes that man is not part of, but those are negligible across the past 150 years or so.
- j-pb 5y agoProtecting the environment is short for "protecting the encironment that humans evolved to live in". It's easy to say "look it's just another extinction event" when you're forgetting that you're the one getting extinct.
- m0llusk 5y agoEarly farming practices were associated with increases in topsoil while current mechanized farming practices are associated with decreases in topsoil. Which practices do you think are more likely to serve mankind well over long periods?
- j-pb 5y agoMechanised early farming, a.k.a. robot swarms that can negate the overhead involved in tending to microplots with 2m*2m squares of one particular crop, and three field cycles. But what does that have to do with my statement?
- lazyjones 5y agoSo what was the state (pH value) of the oceans when we evolved there millions of years ago? My question was very specific and not about protecting the environment in general.
- elil17 5y agoI would tell you to google that question given that this is a thread about protecting the environment, but your username is “Lazy Jones” so I fear such a suggestion may fall on deaf ears.