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If I have to choose between saving deep ocean tube worms (or whatever) and saving mankind... I'm not picking the tube worms.
by PostOnce 5y ago
If I have to choose between saving deep ocean tube worms (or whatever) and saving mankind... I'm not picking the tube worms.
- Tepix 5y agoIf the ocean dies, so does mankind.
- dusted 5y agoMore nuclear power. Also, carbon.. I dunno exactly, but I feel confident that if you take a bunch of it and apply enough pressure, you get coal.. If you press harder it might even be useful for something besides burning and making a mess.. At least the density of diamond is higher than co2, I don't know how much room 34.81 billion metric tons of diamond takes up, but, maybe if we used if for buildings, bridges, pavement it'd not be too much of a hassle, I mean, we're using 4.4 billion tons of cement per year, so that'd leave us with only 30.81 billion tons of unused diamond.. but not having to produce the cement in the first place would offset it a bit.
- ncmncm 5y agoMankind will be fine. Only civilization will collapse, and thousands of species be driven to extinction. The oceans are big and old and can absorb much more than the surface. The Lovecraftian Deep Old Ones might be unamused by the incursion, but might even welcome it. A little extra acidity along with an influx of oxygen might actually be popular. Doing nothing is not doing nothing: the natural world near the surface is taking the brunt of carbonic acid contamination. For every creature at the bottom that experiences a change, a million at the top suffer today.