Re:Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (2016)
by throwaway9990 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @07:55AM
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Not sure why you're tired of it since I haven't heard this argument used much.
Regardless, when I say Earth, I mean the rock and likely ecosystems that currently exist and might develop on it. I think these things cannot be easily separated that's why Earth is used.
Re:Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (2016)
by srdev on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:07PM
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It’s used in nearly every climate change discussion. Its not particularly profound or thought provoking.
Re:Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (2016)
by worldsayshi on Sunday January 07, 2018 @06:34PM
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> and likely ecosystems that currently exist
Well if that's part of "Earth" then "Earth will be fine" is a lie.
I'm so tired of hearing this empty phrase being used. Sure it was fun as a punchline but move along already. It's such a derailment of the discussion. It doesn't state what we mean by "earth" - is it the rock, the ecosystem, life itself? And it implies that the "earth" that is fine is the one that we actually should care about. I have no idea, because the way it's used is not really falsifiable and it's not really anything but a rhetorical trick.