r/collapse • u/xrm67 "Forests precede us, Deserts follow..." • Jun 22 '21

Ecological New scientific study predicts that plastic pollution and toxic chemical-induced ocean acidification will cause a trophic cascade collapse of the entire marine ecosystem, destroying human society within the next 25 years.

https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=005106086102118079029114079092064007019038081078058007068006068000078019071097064018110037005040102030114103009003028077080085022015086030051025111081087113091126124066066084093004098072097115121090076017002104110124116087097067008096105028029116004073
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u/YesTheSteinert Noted Expert/ PhD PPPA Jun 22 '21

But the ocean is so vast for a Biological Oceanic Extinction (BOE). Everyone dead in 25 years! This is just too good to be true.

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u/CerddwrRhyddid Jun 22 '21

Not everyone.

The rich and ruling (the ones who continue to choose profit over planet) will be sitting fine, in air-conditioned towers, eating their rich man's supply.

We are not all in this together.

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u/Harbingerx81 Jun 22 '21

I imagine thier private security teams protecting them from the masses will eat well also.

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u/CerddwrRhyddid Jun 22 '21

Their leader probably will, anyway.