• @tallwookie
    link
    -5
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    several solutions exist - if the temperature increases, we farm in Siberia, or massively adopt vertical farming, or perhaps there’s famine. maybe all three!

    species go extinct all the time, nothing special about corals, they fossilize easily. algae/bacteria will adapt or perish, that’s how evolution works, after all - and their generations are very short.

    • fearout
      link
      fedilink
      311 months ago

      Ehm. While I somewhat agree with your first paragraph (that’s still not “fine” btw), saying that there’s nothing special about corals is kinda bullshit. About a quarter of other marine species in those areas depend on those during at least some part of their lifecycle. And not just snorkelling-pretty fish, fish that we catch for food in areas with coral reefs also heavily rely on them. Bleached corals is not a coral problem, it’s a marine ecosystem problem.

      Also, evolution doesn’t really work on timescales of mere years. Substantial changes take millennia or even eons.