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More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit [38.8 °C].

The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science.

The institute said such a high number of deaths was unusual and suggested record-high lake temperatures and an historic drought in the Amazon may have been the cause.

The news is likely to add to the concerns of climate scientists over the effects human activity and extreme droughts are having on the region.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In the end, the rich and powerful only live in wealth because of the supply chain and, ultimately, the workers.

If civilization crumbles, so does their little empire.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

What's funny is that in a real collapse. Their skills are the least useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I keep saying the same things. These wealthy morons are destroying the planet, lives, civilization, and governments to earn short-sighted profits. They clearly aren't as smart as they like to think they are because the low pay to workers means those workers' can't buy a lot of the shit these businesses make. Then because of low profits, the jackasses lay off workers to show "growth" in the company at earnings. Fewer people have the means to buy what they're selling so it just keeps spiraling down.

They destroy the planet for the same reason. They think at the end of it all, they can just throw money at the problem and fix it immediately, making it all worth it on the end. Thing is, circling back to the first part, they're wealthy and not intelligent. If the planet took this long to get to 1.5°C, what do they think they can accomplish before catastrophic ecological disaster we're already seeing the start of?

Then should they fail to fix it, a subset of them think they can just escape the planet to space. Thing is we're still decades from living in space or another planet. The planet is on the decline now, not in a few decades.

It's infuriating how selfish these people are...