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Maybe the lithium in the ocean serves a purpose we are unaware of and we shouldn't screw with it?
by always2slow 5y ago
Maybe the lithium in the ocean serves a purpose we are unaware of and we shouldn't screw with it?
- ncmncm 5y agoHint: we are already screwing with the ocean on a mass industrial scale. The question should be whether there is a way for any given activity to help mitigate the more harmful of those effects. Changing nothing is actively harmful, and anyway impossible. Human activity is big enough that the only responsible course available is stewardship.
- always2slow 5y agoDid you just advocate for a tragedy of the commons like it was a good thing?
- ncmncm 5y agoStewardship is exactly the opposite of tragedy of the commons.
- always2slow 5y agoYes, but I guess what I'm implying is that you're just going to have multiple actors exploiting whatever they like under the banner of "Stewardship"
- ncmncm 5y agoLiterally all actors are doing whatever they like, today. Most particularly, they are dissolving gigatons of CO2 into surface water, acidifying it. Besides that, a few are trying to control overfishing in coastal waters they have asserted a day over, with varying levels of success, both externally and domestically, subject to politics.
- ncmncm 5y ago*asserted authority over