cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33847388
“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you’re starving.”
While this does seem very important, this headline is pretty terrible. A 40% reduction over a decade is not “suddenly going silent”.
It is considering how long whales have been around and singing
Everyone should be alarmed, Jesus Christ
Not surprising when you’ve got stories like this …
The 2025 krill season in Antarctica has ended with a record-breaking haul: 518,000 tonnes of krill pulled from the Southern Ocean. That’s over ONE BILLION POUNDS of sea life, removed in a single season.
https://seashepherd.org/2025/08/01/antarctic-krill-harvest-surges/
WTF
Keep an eye out for a giant space cylinder my friends.
“Well if the whales don’t like that the water’s killing them and their food supply, maybe they shouldn’t have devolved their legs!”
…That’s probably assuming way too much about the average climate denier’s scientific knowledge or just overall general intelligence, isn’t it?
They did. Then they decided to go back to the water.Devolved. Gotcha.
That would mean they believe in evolution
I dont think whales ever had legs. the lungs were a neofunctionalization of digestive tissue like swim bladders
Whales and other cetaceans evolved from land mammals.
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
fishmicroplastic
We are so screwed
Star trek 4 was a documentary
Hello computer!
or the earth stood still.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Only it ends badly because the whales don’t want to talk about it any more. Or can’t talk about it because they’ve been cooked to death.
too much noise from ships.
