https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1xjpfg/health_of_ocea...
We're in a double-bind in that the only thing that we can use as a stick to beat defectors over the head with is the same stick that defectors are beaten over the head for having in the first place.
The sad state that I think many longterm observers have arrived at by this point is that the red line in the sand beyond which global biocide could have been prevented came and went, silently unnoticed under the ever-increasing weight of modern existence. That moment could've passed sixty years ago; it could've passed sixty minutes ago. I see no way that we'll ever know for certain and I don't know if it really matters in the end anyway. Life has the bug/feature that makes near-as-to-be-limitless energy toxic to the longevity of our ecology. This is simply a more complex reindeer-on-St.-Matthews-Island situation.[1]
It's probably time to don sackcloth and ashes and pray in something other than humanism: be it God, the innate benevolence of universal laws, the development of sentient machines, the transmigration of consciousness, or some other improbably-probable deus ex machina that allows continuity of sentient existence from this planet to somewhere more enduring.
Because if the last hundred years have suggested anything, it's that any attempt by Human Authority to voluntarily and mercifully achieve Justice will be, and has been, sabotaged by the ruination of Moloch.[2]
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[1] http://dieoff.org/page80.htm
[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/