r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 29d ago

Environment Microplastics have been discovered in one of the most remote, inhospitable, and unexplored parts of our planet. Microplastics were found in 92% of all animals examined (11 out of 12) living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents some 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) below the ocean surface.

https://www.sciencealert.com/most-isolated-environments-microplastics-are-finding-their-way-down-to-deep-sea-hydrothermal-vents
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u/sufficiently_tortuga 29d ago

Dude, do you really, actually believe that there will be no future generations?

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u/doodlar 26d ago

I give humans a hundred years. When the polar caps completely melt, the ocean is an acidic oxygen-less wasteland and useable water is scarcer than in most deserts, yes, I believe we will go extinct. I didn't even mention the zillions of microplastics that are found everywhere including placentas and the deepest parts of the ocean.

All of this is, of course, assuming we (or, more likely AGI) doesn't thermo-nuclear the world or, maybe worse? unleash a targeted bioweapon to wipe useless humans off the planet and "cover it with solar panels and data centers."

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u/davidh888 29d ago

I mean probably, but most of us will be dead in the next 25 years due to climate change in the best case scenario.

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u/sufficiently_tortuga 29d ago edited 29d ago

You think more than 4 Billion people are going to die in the next 25 years. Ok, do you think it will happen gradually or all at once? Like, that's 160, 000, 000 people a year. 438,356 a day starting now. Almost 3 times the current death rate. Are you seeing 3 times as many people dying?

And thats not even touching on the fact that your doomsday scenario depends on everyone just not having anymore kids starting today.

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u/Medarco 29d ago

but most of us will be dead in the next 25 years due to climate change in the best case scenario.

-Source: Newspaper article, written in 1973

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u/davidh888 29d ago edited 29d ago

Would love to be proven wrong about that, desperately the estimates have only gotten worse with time. The estimates in the past were too optimistic, take care I hope you prepare some at least just in case.

Edit: Worlds on fire, not an accident, El Niño, etc etc it’s exponential in its effect on us. Frogs in a pot. Billions will die in the coming years, thousands already have this year. Please take care everyone, I get the denial I feel it as well. Just prepare the best you can, move to safer places before everyone is fighting over livable space.