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Frozen methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm – and things are worse than we thought
(theconversation.com)
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Click bait news always annoys me. You aren't going die anytime soon. I've talked to people who a literally stressed all the time because of headlines like this.
Why care about the future now, asks someone in Futurology at futurology dot today.
It's a problem anyway, but not in the way the article says it is, ever heard of Storegga slide? Methane clathrates hold much of continental shelves together, if they fall well gonna get pretty big tsunamis
I think more people die in car related deaths than Tsunamis. You are focusing on the unlikely and then spending tons of time pondering it. Its unhealthy and leads to poor mental health.
Tsunamis nowadays come from earth quakes, potential tsunamis from underwater slides, despite it's low probability would kill millions in coastal areas, but yeah, maybe I'm paranoid because I've read The Swarm by Frank Schätzing,
I mean still it's a widely accepted and real concept
It's profitable to keep an audience in a state of constant fear so they keep checking to make see if it's sorted itself out. Then the 2-week news cycle happens, and the old fear is replaced by a new fear.
Climate change isn't going to end humanity, but it will change our living conditions. And so what? Humans are excellent at adapting to their environment. The ice age didn't doom humanity.
I feel like the current concerns tend to get way overblown out of proportion. Remember that world-ending solar flare that keeps making the rounds every couple months? Still waiting for that to materialize. Fearmongering is so cringe and yet so many people fall for it.
there is a lot of stupid to unpack here,but im gunna try anyway...
The idea that it's profitable to keep an audience in fear is a bit of a cynical oversimplification. Sure, media thrives on sensationalism, but that doesn't mean every threat they report is fabricated. Sometimes, the wolf is real, even if the villagers have cried wolf a hundred times.
Now, climate change. It's not about it being the end of humanity (although ot still may be), but rather about the scale and speed of the change.
Comparing it to the ice age? That's apples and oranges. The ice age was a gradual process over thousands of years. Climate change is happening over decades. That's like comparing a slow cooker to a microwave.
Yes, humans adapt, but at what cost? Loss of biodiversity, extreme weather, displacement of millions?
These aren't minor inconveniences. They're massive challenges with real human and ecological tolls.
And about the solar flare scare, just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't. It's a low probability, high impact event. It's like not wearing a seatbelt because you've never been in a car crash.
Fearmongering is one thing, but willful ignorance? That's a whole different level of cringe.