Posted on 02/18/2019 5:10:06 AM PST by rktman
I stood behind a worn shopping center outside of Crystal Springs, Florida, looking for the refuge where a hundred manatees were gathered for winter. I found them clustered in the emerald-colored spring, trying to enjoy a wedge of sunlight and avoid the hordes of people like me, boxing them in on kayaks and tour boats, leering over wooden decks. The nearby canals were lined with expensive homes and docks with jetskis. One manatee breached the water for a breath, and I could see the propeller scar on its back.
2018 was the second deadliest year on record for manatees. Like many of our coastal species, they’re vulnerable to habitat loss and warming seas, which are more hospitable to algal blooms and red tide. Science has given us the foresight we need to make decisions that will reduce the future suffering of other species and ourselves, but we don’t heed it. Why?
Studies show that humans don’t respond well to abstract projections. We overvalue short-term benefits, such as driving SUVs, burning coal and building waterfront real estate. We choose these extravagances even though they impede beneficial long-term outcomes, such as saving threatened species, or reducing the intensity of climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
No, so often they cannot see.
What a ludicrous rambling article.
Leftists. They just gotta' have something to complain about...
You will know the “rising oceans” predication is coming true when waterfront real estate begins dropping in value. Until that happens, it just all so much hot air.
Studies show that humans don’t respond well to abstract projections.
Nope. The ocean does whatever it wants.
The amount of delusion in this article is staggering
I guess she is some kind of super human. Above all us mere humans.
Shucks! I was hoping for that hilarious Goebbels photo.
Beneficial lomg-term outcomes such as reducing the intensity of climate change....???? How? More & more taxes seems to be the only answer they have & that doesn’t work.
There is no delusion, just a sustained campaign to coerce Americans into a reduced standard of living while the elites keep their private jets, waterfront homes, private islands, etc:
“We overvalue short-term benefits, such as driving SUVs, burning coal and building waterfront real estate”
The problem for the elites is that people won’t work without tangible benefits; in the past these included buying a home and having a family. They’ve convinced or economically forced many younger Americans to forego both of these; now they have to get them out of private vehicles and away from diets that include red meat (the latter seems to be the latest push).
” hundred manatees were gathered for winter”
I didn’t know they flew south like the birds. /sarc
can one keep the ocean at bay?
i think not... it is all connected.
Can’t humans see the writing on the wall?>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Dutch refused to see the writing on the wall a thousand years ago.
I suppose the Dutch are all effed up according to these lefty socialist diatribes?
“The Dutch solution to floods: live with water, don’t fight it “
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/16/flooding-netherlands
“We overvalue short-term benefits, such as driving SUVs,”
Short-term benefits.... like being able to haul more than one sack of groceries, or surviving a crash with anything weighing more than a shopping cart.
“Nope. The ocean does whatever it wants.”
Yes, and if you are in the way, you get run over.
Crack journalist or journalist on crack?
You be the judge.
I recently watched a documentary on the history of Australia.
60 to 65,000 years ago the first humans reached Australia by walking across land bridges that existed then.
Of course since then the sea levels have risen, yet humans managed to survive.
If the sea is rising or if Florida is sinking, humans will do what humans do best, adapt.
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