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This is my first time hearing that dolphins reside in lakes. Natural inlet.
Basically, this time, they swam right into a boiling pot.
We are so royally fucked.
Scientists have been telling anyone who would listen, for decades, in the most dire terms, of what was going to happen and how badly it's going to happen and everyone was like "nah they don't know for sure and they're exaggerating and being ridiculous" and yet the same people are still going to have the utter gall to act completely surprised pikachu face when it starts actually happening and try to convince us that no one could've possibly predicted this.
except the scientists. who predicted this.
Imagine how different things might be if Bush didn't steal the 2000 election from gore
But South Park said Al Gore was just seeking attention.
First off fuck Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their dumb take on it at the time, climate change is real and I agree with An Inconvenient truth for the most part (one lake he highlighted as drying up in the US was actually drained by intensive agriculture wells - everything else accurate). But his biggest failing was setting up a carbon trading company literally at the same time he was telling everyone climate change was real, and that the best measure to deal with it was governments setting up carbon trading.
Of course as soon as people whom are wary of this huge claim learn that he has a profit motive, then they're going to suspect he is only trying to line his own pockets.
All he had to do was spread the message and not be greedy, but he couldnt help himself.
I think his biggest failing was that the Supreme Court picked Bush as president even though Gore won Florida and thus the election.
That was definitely impactful, but I can't blame gore for that failing, it was a coup subverting democracy.
The judges that helped Bush secure the win were also permanently enshrined in the US's broken legal system: John Roberts, Brett Cavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett.
They actually did a follow-up episode about Al Gore being right, and everyone had to apologize to him!
I don't know how often they admit that they were wrong, but I thought that was big of them
Propaganda has made it so a significant portion of the population takes it personal if anyone anywhere dares to even try to suggest that they might know better than them about something, even if they're an expert on that thing. And as a response, they will do the exact opposite out of spite.
I vacationed one year in Ecuador/Galapagos and spent a few days at a an amazon river lodge and they have pink dolphins. They're pretty cute/small!
There are river dolphins, even.
Yup we're swimming into a boiling lake ourselves, metaphorically speaking
Lived in the Mississippi bayou and in drought conditions ocean water backs up into the lakes and wetlands. I swam with dolphins 30 miles north of the coast some summers.
was you born on the bayou? Is mississippi as big a shithole as it seems?
It's a lake but connected to river tefe https://share.google/h4LF3AdItJKiZ8BwM I assume they can be disconnected if drought happen