A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’
It’s winter in Antarctica, when sea ice expands rapidly around the continent peaking in September.
But satellite observations showed the Bellingshausen Sea – on the west side of the Antarctic peninsula and which by June would usually be covered by ice – was almost completely ice free.
You’re probably right…nature has a way of forcing balance one way or another.
But most Everytime someone says something like this, they believe they will be among the survivors…which is probably very unlikely.
Too many predators? Prey is too thin. Predators starve. Prey numbers bounce back.
Too much prey? Then they either over-consume or the predators fatten up and make lots of predator babies.
But humans…we are incredibly efficient hunters. We let the prey get down to single-digits and keep going and wear killing the last whatever like a badge of pride. And we aren’t just hunting the prey…we’re sucking everything out of the land, the air, the water. We’re digging up carbon that was sequestered millions of years ago and reintroducing it to our atmosphere. We’re eating apex predators out of the ocean and driving apex predators off of the land.
How many invasive insects started showing up in your area, fucking everything up?
Oh it’s going to be horrible, like orders of magnitude worse than the Black Death. And with dwindling resources, we’ll be doing it to each other.
I’m more likely to be killed in such a scenario than not.