[HN Gopher] The largest group of nesting fish ever found lives b...
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       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)
        
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       | imapeopleperson wrote:
       | That's a beautiful discovery and makes me sad to think what
       | global damage industrialization must have caused.
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       | 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].
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         | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29923951
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         | [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?
        
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