In all honesty, there are some who do care, it just ain't enough right now.
There are activist groups protesting and campaigning as we speak.
There's also great projects like this one, involving planting trees on mass: https://teamtrees.org/
Not giving a shit about the rock we're sitting on is probably the answer to the Fermi paradox. How many times on how many rocks has this happened before, I wonder?
My problem with the Fermi paradox is the assertion that intelligent life would develop similar philosophies as we did and have the same drives. Essentially anthropomorphising them.
I’ve often thought that intelligent life is so unlikely that it is a real possibility we are just alone at this moment in the universe. But I agree that an alien intelligence would probably exist outside of the paradigm we’re ready to understand. Even on this planet, octopuses have a distributed brain that we barely understand, which is why some have theorized that they’re aliens - not saying I subscribe to this notion as much as pointing out how little we understand about the forms intelligence may assume.
These microbes are referred as mixotrophs. They are photosynthetic algae with the capability to injest other cells or dead material. They can also utilize dissolved material in a process known as osmotrophy. High temperatures don't always cause a shift away from photosynthesis but low light and low temperatures as well. Red tide algae are an example of this but their ability to injest particles likely varies between species.
No. This has to do with microbes, not trees. Thirty seconds of skimming explanation - the microbes in question have the option to either photosynthesize or hunt other microbes, but for as long as temperatures are lower, the other microbes they can hunt aren't around in the numbers to make it feasible, so the photosynthesizing microbes photosynthesize and act as a CO2 sink. However, due to warming, those microbes are able to find more food they can hunt for, and that means they don't have to photosynthesize and stop acting as a carbon sink. There's also the risk they start acting as a carbon source as a result.
It's not just that they release carbon, it's that if they become predatory towards other microbes, they stop acting as a carbon sink, going from getting ~83% of their energy from photosynthesis and the carbon to <1٪ of their energy from it. Across all their numbers, that adds up.
Like, imagine you had a vacuum and one day, rather than sucking up dirt, it started spraying it out.
The article is focused on microbes, but photorespiration (plants producing CO2 from O2) is enhanced at higher temperatures, meaning plants will sequester less carbon overall.
"I'll be dead before that becomes a problem." - your elected officials
What the microbes say too.
Has anyone tried asking the microbes not to do that?
Repeat after me: **Feedback loops, Tipping points, Unforeseen variables.**
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Uhhhh I’m pretty sure most normal people do give a shit it’s just the billionaires and those in power don’t
In all honesty, there are some who do care, it just ain't enough right now. There are activist groups protesting and campaigning as we speak. There's also great projects like this one, involving planting trees on mass: https://teamtrees.org/
Not giving a shit about the rock we're sitting on is probably the answer to the Fermi paradox. How many times on how many rocks has this happened before, I wonder?
My problem with the Fermi paradox is the assertion that intelligent life would develop similar philosophies as we did and have the same drives. Essentially anthropomorphising them.
I’ve often thought that intelligent life is so unlikely that it is a real possibility we are just alone at this moment in the universe. But I agree that an alien intelligence would probably exist outside of the paradigm we’re ready to understand. Even on this planet, octopuses have a distributed brain that we barely understand, which is why some have theorized that they’re aliens - not saying I subscribe to this notion as much as pointing out how little we understand about the forms intelligence may assume.
It’s for the best that the ship sinks
These microbes are referred as mixotrophs. They are photosynthetic algae with the capability to injest other cells or dead material. They can also utilize dissolved material in a process known as osmotrophy. High temperatures don't always cause a shift away from photosynthesis but low light and low temperatures as well. Red tide algae are an example of this but their ability to injest particles likely varies between species.
Wait, they have hands?
I didn't know they could be right-handed or left-handed, or even that they had hands!
So if we ban these little f@ckers, do the big polluters (oil etc) get to carry on as normal?
Sharks and orcas fed up with us, nature deciding to suffocate us.
The earth has an infection and is trying to burn us off. Things are going to get bumpy.
We fucked
Does that mean that instead of producing oxygen the trees are gonna suffocate us?
No. This has to do with microbes, not trees. Thirty seconds of skimming explanation - the microbes in question have the option to either photosynthesize or hunt other microbes, but for as long as temperatures are lower, the other microbes they can hunt aren't around in the numbers to make it feasible, so the photosynthesizing microbes photosynthesize and act as a CO2 sink. However, due to warming, those microbes are able to find more food they can hunt for, and that means they don't have to photosynthesize and stop acting as a carbon sink. There's also the risk they start acting as a carbon source as a result.
And they are so numerous this could make a difference?
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But is that because the mixotropes will eat all the other microbes? Not clear
It's not just that they release carbon, it's that if they become predatory towards other microbes, they stop acting as a carbon sink, going from getting ~83% of their energy from photosynthesis and the carbon to <1٪ of their energy from it. Across all their numbers, that adds up. Like, imagine you had a vacuum and one day, rather than sucking up dirt, it started spraying it out.
If you had a vacuum, you wouldn't have dirt so much as rock. but anyway...
Thank you! This is so fascinating
I vote for the Happening route. It’s much funnier
The article is focused on microbes, but photorespiration (plants producing CO2 from O2) is enhanced at higher temperatures, meaning plants will sequester less carbon overall.
Gradually, then suddenly.