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by Mindphreaker 2607 days ago
This gives me a chilling reminder of The Swarm - A Novel Of The Deep by Frank Schätzing. Interesting novel with quite some scientific background.
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Interesting. He concretizes unforeseen consequences of screwing with the global ecosystem. I'm not sure that it's useful, though. Reality is frightening enough.

I've lived through a few situations where I did something stupid, and surprising stuff happened. Too quickly to do anything about, but slowly enough to appreciate how bad it was going to be. My first faceplant on a snowboard, for example. So anyway, regarding global climate change, the last 30 years has been like that. And surprises just keep coming.

Well reality certainly will be if it turns out permafrost thawing is a tipping point we're blithely passing.