Endman posted:

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

Too Many Birds posted:

it brings me no pleasure to report that the lauren boebert free army has died from dysentery

mediaphage posted:

yeah yellowstone is kind of inconceivable, a thing i read suggested 90k dead from the shockwave alone

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

lmfao is this really how you think that scenario would conclude?

skooma512 posted:

I think with Ukraine I'm at my limit at monitoring crises.

There's

* Climate
* COVID
* Economic poo poo
* Ukraine
* China's real estate market
* America's real estate market

Any ships want to get wedged in any more canals?

starkebn posted:

Eh, you're over complicating it, it's all human population overshoot

Karach posted:

There's gonna be a supervolcano busting all over and I still need to be at my desk by 8 am

starkebn posted:

Eh, you're over complicating it, it's all human population overshoot

mediaphage posted:

yes yes covid deaths har har, it's still incredible to think of that many people dying within a few seconds / a minute of an eruption

MightyBigMinus posted:

well i went a head and took a quick spin through ar6 wg2's graphics

first off we have "all the fish have to die or move"



next up is "60% of biodiversity in the tropics is at risk"



or how about "the death of half of everything" (thanos was a cuck)



here's a great new neologism, "food production loss events", sorry india!



but wait there's another one: "yield constraint score"



this one says climate change is bad for humans! sure hope nobody in india has to work outdoors to overcome their yield constraint score during a food production loss event



here's the real deep cut poo poo, how about 10 million dead?



or the 366 days of the year that going outside will kill you in indonesia

mediaphage posted:

imo population 'overshoot' is only the issue because things like capitalism are so bad, we all know we could have plenty of people alive and happy without killing the earth, but we just...don't

Platystemon posted:

Don’t read about this.

starkebn posted:

Edit: unless by "plenty of people" you mean like half a billion worldwide.

mediaphage posted:

no, i don't think we'd have to limit the population to 500 million to avoid thoroughly destroying the planet, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it'd be easier, though, and it doesn't matter because that's long since passed

Too Many Birds posted:

it brings me no pleasure to report that the lauren boebert free army has died from dysentery

The Voice of Labor posted:

by volume, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that cows have conquered the planet, using their human servants to convert forests into pasture, to feed and propagate them?

Harry Potter on Ice posted:

drat bacteria is about to come up huge when plants go

mediaphage posted:

i think bacteria might be higher than that. and really arthropods should just read “MOTHERFUCKIN’ ANTS”

The Voice of Labor posted:

by volume, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that cows have conquered the planet, using their human servants to convert forests into pasture, to feed and propagate them?

quote:

Human activity contributed to the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction between ≈50,000 and ≈3,000 y ago, which claimed around half of the large (>40 kg) land mammal species (30). The biomass of wild land mammals before this period of extinction was estimated by Barnosky (30) at ≈0.02 Gt C. The present-day biomass of wild land mammals is approximately sevenfold lower, at ≈0.003 Gt C (SI Appendix, Pre-human Biomass and Chordates and Table S11). Intense whaling and exploitation of other marine mammals have resulted in an approximately fivefold decrease in marine mammal global biomass [from ≈0.02 Gt C to ≈0.004 Gt C (31)]. While the total biomass of wild mammals (both marine and terrestrial) decreased by a factor of ≈6, the total mass of mammals increased approximately fourfold from ≈0.04 Gt C to ≈0.17 Gt C due to the vast increase of the biomass of humanity and its associated livestock. Human activity has also impacted global vertebrate stocks, with a decrease of ≈0.1 Gt C in total fish biomass, an amount similar to the remaining total biomass in fisheries and to the gain in the total mammalian biomass due to livestock husbandry (SI Appendix, Pre-human Biomass). The impact of human civilization on global biomass has not been limited to mammals but has also profoundly reshaped the total quantity of carbon sequestered by plants. A worldwide census of the total number of trees (32), as well as a comparison of actual and potential plant biomass (17), has suggested that the total plant biomass (and, by proxy, the total biomass on Earth) has declined approximately twofold relative to its value before the start of human civilization. The total biomass of crops cultivated by humans is estimated at ≈10 Gt C, which accounts for only ≈2% of the extant total plant biomass (17).

quote:

A worldwide census of the total number of trees (32)

quote:

We provide the first spatially continuous map of forest tree density at a global scale. This map reveals that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate. Of these trees, approximately 1.30 trillion exist in tropical and subtropical forests, with 0.74 trillion in boreal regions and 0.66 trillion in temperate regions.

toggle posted:

we really did have everything didn't we

Platystemon posted:

The answer to “how much corn could there possibly be?” is at the end of this paragraph, but the rest of it is too relevant not to quote.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

MightyBigMinus posted:

toggle posted:

we really did have everything didn't we