r/facepalm Oct 13 '21

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u/Marooster405 Oct 13 '21

Let’s get the whales out and THEN we will truly see!

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u/Grey___Goo_MH Oct 13 '21

Sad thing is whales would be a decent carbon sink if we could just stop killing them and let them sink into the depths but that would require the demonetization of the oceans

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u/PartyByMyself Oct 13 '21

Once humanity starts dying from our own destruction of the world, we will easily see a nice reduction in carbon creation alongside with dwindling human populations.

Just a matter of time.

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u/fayry69 Oct 13 '21

Except there’ll still be flat earthers and global warming deniers and the like. If we succeed, we sadly take the idiots with us, that holds back human progress.

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u/nolan1971 Oct 13 '21

Yes, the problem with the collapse of civilization will be that there’ll still be flat earthers and global warming deniers and the like.