Mass drowning of chicks puts Emperor Penguins at risk of extinction

*Holy shit everything gonna be alright then*

just being outside at night, seeing no insects on your windows at all where there once used to be hundreds, shows everyone how far we have gone. But hardly nobody notices or cares - they are all on the screens and in their own worlds.

What many people need to grasp is that 99.9999% of us are here as passengers. We have no say in what happens in the grand scheme of things. The current geopolitical climate has shown us that checks and balances are, in fact, a lie. You’re not going to convince millions of Indian and Chinese citizens that they can't have power because their utility companies and government choose to use oil/gas power plants. And, quite frankly, nor should we feel any right to. Can you imagine 50 Celsius summer days without any fans, refrigerators, or, for those fortunate enough, air conditioning? In the same way, you’re not gonna convince millions of westerners to live off-grid sustainably. The reality is, as a single Brit, who does my recycling, and picks renewable energy electricity suppliers, and doesn’t drive… my carbon emissions would hardly register. And I like my ice cream… and I am not giving that up. I’ve said this countless times before, but mark my words, we are only a few decades away from the world perfectly depicted in the film Elysium. In fact, we’re already there, but without the mega-structure space station.

Not that this was your point, but sadly a team of journalists can’t fix these issues. They can intervene once, but unless the core issues are addressed they will save one group only to go on and see the same thing happening to another.

its more that theres no realistic intervention that doesnt involve them becoming dependent on humans and not able to survive in the wild anyway

Its obvious Emosuar and thier upvoters dont watch nature documentaries.

They're not following a light in the sky, they're attracted to the moonlight reflecting off the ocean.

F***, that was a brutal watch. It really affected the film crew too, there's a "making of" section at the end and they're all just utterly distraught, but kept filming to help increase awareness of our effect on wildlife

No they did not

But is it not worth it for the billionaire's wealth? They get a slightly bigger abstract number!

Because some of us need the relief to help us cope.

He's saying there is literally no option for these penguins. They will continue to follow their instincts, look for ice sheets to lay eggs on, and many will continue to die in the process. They would not move to land for convenience like humans would. That's why preservation of these kinds of resources is so important.

Animals don't really reason in this way. More likely is once the ice is gone they will mostly stop breeding altogether. When animals are stressed or can't find their suitable conditions one of the first things they stop doing is reproducing. Dramatic changes to environments are devastating to animals for many reasons. One of which is that they can't think of the types of alternatives which may help them cope. They often shut down or adjust in ways that make their situation worse. The truth is we have no idea if they will eventually adapt or if they will adapt in time to save their species. Many go extinct.

If any survive, maybe. Some species will just not breed and go extinct if their breeding conditions aren't met. They're going off of pure instict

There is no available “land” for them. Antarctic land lies buried under ice that averages over 2 km (1.2 miles) in thickness, with depths reaching up to 4.8 km (nearly 3 miles) in some areas.

Maybe he's Aussie and wanna go look for Atlantis 😍

Bears! No Bears!

"YEA, ARTIC IS UP NORTH WHERE REAL PEOPLE LIVE AND ANTARTIC IS WHERE SATAN AND IMMIGRANTS COME FROM!" \~\~ Trump probably.... Has he ever actually been south of the Equator??? Like, even during his first term, how often did he visit South America or Africa or Australia???

one has ants

It’s the same climate change opening up the arctic, which is impacting the penguins; what he said doesn’t mean he’s mixed them up.

Never forget that that's the modern compromise on their actual position, which is "Your existence is an abomination and we should kill you with rocks." They claim not to think that anymore, but only while you're in the room. Behind closed doors they're absolutely still on team "kill them with rocks" and they deeply resent having to pretend otherwise.

"It's Satan tricking you!" They said, with zero self-reflection of their own actions and motivations.

It's baffling how it's 2026 and, despite knowing SO much about genetics generally, we're STILL having to deal with remnants of societal beliefs in primitive concepts of all-powerful god things who are rulers of the entire observable universe and beyond, yet still somehow care about how life on this one little rock uses their genitals. We pass by insects every day and don't notice them. We have millions of bacteria living inside us all the time and don't notice them. They couldn't even comprehend what we are. If a god thing exists out there anywhere, it hasn't found us yet.

These people take the rules of pattern recognition, flip the board, and start pissing on it. Any normal person would look at what Christians call "the will of God" and say "weird coincidence, maybe some rich guy pulled some strings."

You’re right, of course. The exception for Hanlon’s Razor.

Morally, absolutely yes.