Humans are good at being anxious due to the precariousness of life. Especially for things we don’t fully understand.
For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet#1910
Why is the environment any different?
For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet#1910
Why is the environment any different?
That's a language trap. It's true that we do not understand the environment fully, in the sense that we don't know how every single living creature on it will die.
But we understand it well enough: we can see the big trends.
We don't know exactly how times we will hit the cliff as we fall, but we can see clearly that we're falling.
The only thing different between an explosion and wind is the rate of change.
Like so Michu astronomy, Flammarion's theory was merely conjecture with no experimental evidence. Further, many other scientists correctly contested his hypothesis at the time.
Compare that with overfishing, where we have strong evidence that tuna populations have drastically declined in the past 50 years [1]. These declines are very likely due to overfishing, particularly of immature fish that have not had a chance to reproduce. Without a change of trajectory, many tuna species will almost certainly go extinct.
Yes, we should be skeptical and not give into hysteria. But that doesn't instead mean we should just stick our heads in the sand.
Don't you think oceans without fish are going to cause a lot of problems?