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@shadow27 | 4 December 19 | |
@ cleancut - 3.12.19 - 11:19pm I think it's more about what it's doing to the ocean life. The was a whale washed up near here a few days ago and it had 220kg of plastic in its stomach, wrappers and nylon rope and loads of things. Do you see plastic on the beaches in Australia? You don't here at all We should be more worried about the acidification of the oceans, runoff from agriculture etc. Look up The Great Dying, an exctinction event that occurred millions of years ago.. we are ourselves creating similar conditions in our oceans today. What I'm saying is that we can't just focus on one issue at a time and expect our oceans to be healthy. |
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@bozzalad | 4 December 19 | |
@ cleancut - 3.12.19 - 11:19pm I think it's more about what it's doing to the ocean life. The was a whale washed up near here a few days ago and it had 220kg of plastic in its stomach, wrappers and nylon rope and loads of things. Do you see plastic on the beaches in Australia? You don't here at all Do you see plastic on the beaches in Australia? You don't here at all you must be joking https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9751669/uk-beaches-plastic-rocks-cornwall/ https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/environment/time-to-stop-killing-our-seaside-1-9090322 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8586920.stm |
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@bozzalad | 4 December 19 | |
@ shadow27 - 4.12.19 - 12:24am We should be more worried about the acidification of the oceans, runoff from agriculture etc. Look up The Great Dying, an exctinction event that occurred millions of years ago.. we are ourselves creating similar conditions in our oceans today. What I'm saying is that we can't just focus on one issue at a time and expect our oceans to be healthy. agreed some farmers are a scourge between this and bse they have a lot to answer for |
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@cleancut | 4 December 19 | |
@ shadow27 - 4.12.19 - 12:24am We should be more worried about the acidification of the oceans, runoff from agriculture etc. Look up The Great Dying, an exctinction event that occurred millions of years ago.. we are ourselves creating similar conditions in our oceans today. What I'm saying is that we can't just focus on one issue at a time and expect our oceans to be healthy. Totally agree, if the barrier reef goes we've lost it forever and that would be a tragedy, heard you almost got koalas made extinct in the fires too. Really sad |
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@cleancut | 4 December 19 | |
@ bozzalad - 4.12.19 - 12:49am Do you see plastic on the beaches in Australia? You don't here at all you must be joking https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9751669/uk-beaches-plastic-rocks-cornwall/ https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/environment/time-to-stop-killing-our-seaside-1-9090322 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8586920.stm Had no idea it was that bad, Blackpool looks horrible. The beaches in Norfolk are pretty clean that's all I was going on. |
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@bozzalad | 4 December 19 | |
@ cleancut - 4.12.19 - 01:00am Had no idea it was that bad, Blackpool looks horrible. The beaches in Norfolk are pretty clean that's all I was going on. and to top it off dig down a few inchs on the beach you have thick black oil and sewerage |
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@bozzalad | 4 December 19 | |
and blackpool has clean water awards lol |
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@shadow27 | 4 December 19 | |
@ cleancut - 4.12.19 - 12:56am Totally agree, if the barrier reef goes we've lost it forever and that would be a tragedy, heard you almost got koalas made extinct in the fires too. Really sad I was watching a documentary about the reef recently, it has had periods where it dies off and regenerates etc just like anything. As for the fires, it wouldn't be a problem if they did burnoffs and managed it properly... Something the natives managed to do for tens of thousands of years. |
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@shadow27 | 4 December 19 | |
Not exactly the topic for it, but: 'Perhaps the most amazing fire adaptation is that some species actually require fire for their seeds to sprout. Some plants, such as the lodgepole pine, Eucalyptus, and Banksia, have serotinous cones or fruits that are completely sealed with resin. These cones/fruits can only open to release their seeds after the heat of a fire has physically melted the resin. Other species, including a number of shrubs and annual plants, require the chemical signals from smoke and charred plant matter to break seed dormancy. Some of these plants will only sprout in the presence of such chemicals and can remain buried in the soil seed bank for decades until a wildfire awakens them.' |
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@kimjongl | 4 December 19 | |
@ cleancut - 4.12.19 - 12:56am Totally agree, if the barrier reef goes we've lost it forever and that would be a tragedy, heard you almost got koalas made extinct in the fires too. Really sad Maybe the koalas should go extinct. Fire is nature's renewal tool and if they've been evolutionary delinquents and cannot escape perhaps nature has selected them for extinction. |
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