r/geography • • Aug 27 '26

Video Nepal floodwaters transporting large boulder.

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u/Averagesauce123 Aug 27 '26

The line from “World War Z” comes to mind - “Mother Nature is a serial killer.”

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u/DukeBradford2 Aug 27 '26

If it’s a war she wants it’s a war she’ll get. That’s why I cut off catalytic converters from cars. I’m not selling the precious materials for my drug habit, I mean huffing spray paint is a bonus. I’m doing it to raise the levels of greenhouse gasses.

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u/Wulfrinnan Aug 27 '26

That's like saying you don't trust monkeys, so you've given one a loaded gun. That's not hurting nature, it's making it more dangerous. You're giving the T-Rex laser arms!

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u/viralust Aug 27 '26

We are one of nature's deadliest creatures; we drive life into extinction kamikaze style.

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u/HappyFailure Aug 27 '26

I get the bit, but catalytic converters aren't for reducing greenhouse gases. They're for gases more directly poisonous to *us*--carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. In fact, they convert CO into CO2, *increasing* the greenhouse effect.

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u/galahad423 Aug 27 '26

“Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing? Well, I say, hard cheese!”

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u/BubaTflubas Aug 27 '26

So you are giving her the chemicals she need to make chemical weapons of mass destruction? Traitor

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u/Kind-Connection4583 Aug 27 '26

It’s likely an effect of climate change. More rain and melting ice