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It's so big, even 100 years ago it probably seemed impossible for human activity to affect it. But human activity scales while ocean size remains constant. Bet
by causal 3y ago
It's so big, even 100 years ago it probably seemed impossible for human activity to affect it. But human activity scales while ocean size remains constant.
Better maritime regulation is a must.
- juujian 3y agoSuch is the (dumb pun incoming) power of exponentials and exponential growth.
- xnx 3y agoTrue. Though it is worth noting some small success stories like the decline of whaling: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/whale-catch https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/whale-catch
- taway_6PplYu5 3y agoexcept we are harvesting all the krill, not leaving a lot for the whales. and a lot of the krill goes to dog food.
- 0xffff2 3y agoI get where you're going, but I think you need to go back more like 200 years at least. 100 years ago our impact on whales at least was very clearly evident to anyone remotely paying attention.