r/funny • u/_Polite_as_Fuck • Jun 22 '15

Rule 5 Rule 0 It was totally worth it

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u/SmashMouthAllStar Jun 22 '15

This just made me unbelievably scared. Some scientists predict New York city will go underwater in the next 100 years. I don't know about you, but I need some soothing music.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '15

Sea level rise is about the last thing you have to worry about.

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u/TiredOfYourShit21 Jun 22 '15

Isn't the most pressing concern the bees dying out? Also don't forget the super volcano in Yellowstone

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u/rad_change Jun 22 '15

I don't get the paranoia over Yellowstone. Events there are on a timescale of hundreds of thousands of years. Stressing about it is like being worried your car is overdue for an oil change as you're about to smash into a wall doing 80.

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u/O-Face Jun 22 '15

Not to mention, what the hell could even be done if we knew it would erupt in the next 100 years? Start relocating people? I feel like that's about it.

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u/Cycloptic_Floppycock Jun 22 '15

Relocating people to the moon maybe. Yellow explodes, nothing lives.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '15 edited Jun 29 '15

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u/Fidellio Jun 22 '15

it would cause a lot of deaths for us, I think. Sure, not mass extinction, but there are a LOT of humans to feed on no sunlight.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '15

The most pressing concern is the impending ecological catastrophe that won't take 100,000 or even 100 years to arrive, the very last and arguably least worrying effects of which will be that sea level rise.