More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C].

The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science.

The institute said such a high number of deaths was unusual and suggested record-high lake temperatures and an historic drought in the Amazon may have been the cause.

The news is likely to add to the concerns of climate scientists over the effects human activity and extreme droughts are having on the region.

    • @[email protected]
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      571 year ago

      If that’s their plan it’s incredibly stupid. They’re really underestimating the lethality of ecological collapse, and overestimating the ability of their wealth to mitigate it. Their best bet at survival is being holed up in a bunker by themselves living an austere subsistence life with maybe some close family. There’s not going to be anything to rule over.

      • @[email protected]
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        321 year ago

        In the end, the rich and powerful only live in wealth because of the supply chain and, ultimately, the workers.

        If civilization crumbles, so does their little empire.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            My structural engineer buddy often says “I’m still an engineer when the power goes out” lol

        • Ænima
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          31 year ago

          I keep saying the same things. These wealthy morons are destroying the planet, lives, civilization, and governments to earn short-sighted profits. They clearly aren’t as smart as they like to think they are because the low pay to workers means those workers’ can’t buy a lot of the shit these businesses make. Then because of low profits, the jackasses lay off workers to show “growth” in the company at earnings. Fewer people have the means to buy what they’re selling so it just keeps spiraling down.

          They destroy the planet for the same reason. They think at the end of it all, they can just throw money at the problem and fix it immediately, making it all worth it on the end. Thing is, circling back to the first part, they’re wealthy and not intelligent. If the planet took this long to get to 1.5°C, what do they think they can accomplish before catastrophic ecological disaster we’re already seeing the start of?

          Then should they fail to fix it, a subset of them think they can just escape the planet to space. Thing is we’re still decades from living in space or another planet. The planet is on the decline now, not in a few decades.

          It’s infuriating how selfish these people are…

          • @Sanctus
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            11 year ago

            Heres the thing though. Its not just the wealthy, anyone with a 401k and wanting it to appreciate is carrying part of the blame too. The stock market allows us all to demand infinite return from finite resources and a lot of peoples’ retirements are nested in that hell handbasket. This entire place is built like this. Literally everything has to change.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              I don’t know about you, but I’ve made a shit ton of money in the market by investing in green technology.

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        If that’s their plan it’s incredibly stupid.

        It’s not, like most things it’s a lot dumber and simpler. Rich people don’t fight or organize as a class, but they don’t need too. The wealthy just have to look after themselves, and by doing so will vicariously establish benefits for other rich people.

        I think in regards to climate change the wealthy are experiencing a malicious version of the bystander effect. Where they on some level understand their own endangerment, but expect a higher power to fix it for them.

        However, when a government does attempt a fix that is personally detrimental to their financial health, they take it personally and become reactionary.

      • @Maggoty
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        91 year ago

        Anyone who thinks wealthy equals smart should not have a driver’s license or be out in public without a handler.

        • @d33pblu3g3n3
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          51 year ago

          The richest person that I personally know was unable to finish highschool, but is the most ruthless, cold hearted motherfucker I ever crossed paths with. Of course he doesn’t believe in climate change.

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        My theory is that the corporate oligarchy want climate change to cull billions from the human population, right at the time when hundreds of millions of jobs are being eliminated through robotics and AI.

        There aren’t enough resources to support the current developed world population of < billion, so another several billion people at that level of consumption is literally impossible. Demand will dramatically exceed supply this century.

        There will be global resource shortages and massive inflation either way, but in a 2-4c world they can “let” billions die without firing a shot. They have their prepper bunkers stocked and ready to roll for when shit hits the fan, so they assume their wealth will ensure they prevail regardless of how bad things get. It doesn’t matter that no-one can escape ecological collapse. All that matters is that they believe they can.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            You need the workers procreating, otherwise who will serve as the army, farmers and slaves?

          • @QuandaleDingle
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            11 year ago

            They still need to maintain concern for short-term profits, and having less workers and consumers doesn’t help.

    • @5BC2E7
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      If history has anything to teach us is that we should expect the opposite outcome from such a collapse. i an not a doomer/tankie advocating for collapse. I am just pointing out you have the wrong conclusion.