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Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.

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[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

Humans deserve everything we’re about to get as a result of climate change but watching things like this happen is heartbreaking.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 57 points 1 year ago

Hard agree. The animals didn't do anything wrong. :(

[-] Flambo@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

The vast majority of the humans are just along for the ride as well.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago
[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cyanobacteria are not animals, or even eukaryotes. It's right there in the name.

I'd personally agree that being eaten is bad whether it's by Jeffrey Dahmer or a lion, but that's a weird way of arguing for it.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

Change animal with non-human.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, I see. Yeah, all sorts of organisms can have impacts we don't like (and it is worth pointing out that biodiversity is itself a human goal).

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's what I wanted to point out, because the comment sounded like the appeal to nature fallacy (aka nature is good humans are bad). Mindlessly changing its environment for its own benefit seems to be something that every form of life tend to do, except we are smart enough to understand it's going to make us suffer, so we should improve it.

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