[HN Gopher] The largest group of nesting fish ever found lives b... ___________________________________________________________________ The largest group of nesting fish ever found lives beneath Antarctic ice Author : gmays Score : 31 points Date : 2022-01-14 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.sciencenews.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sciencenews.org) | imapeopleperson wrote: | That's a beautiful discovery and makes me sad to think what | global damage industrialization must have caused. | | I wish so dearly there was a way to let earth reproduce her | fruits that didn't involve destroying humanity. | perihelions wrote: | The one comment in the other thread [0] speculates the | Newfoundland banks could have had things similar to this, | except they wouldn't today, because industrial trawling would | have destroyed them [1]. | | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29923951 | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_trawling | ars wrote: | The earth doesn't care, only humans care. Earth without humans | would be pointless, so you have to take humans as they are, the | good and the bad both. | | But please remember things are way better now than they used to | be, pre-industrialization was not the utopia many think. | tmountain wrote: | I don't think it would be any more or less pointless than it | is now. If heat death is inevitable, nothing really | "matters". | | That said, the planet's ecological health was indisputably | better before the industrial revolution. | | Things sucked for humans in a lot of ways, but almost every | other species was in a much better place. | thelittleone wrote: | Earth without humans would be pointless? I disagree. Seems | astonishingly arrogant to assume all else is nothing without | humans. What about before the evolution of humans? One could | argue that every step leading up to the first human was | required for humans to appear in the first place. | | What about love? Do you think a chimp mother loves it's chimp | child? Do you think that is pointless too? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-14 23:00 UTC)