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nestle is pretty lovely but the bayer thing blew my loving mind e: beaten by seconds
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Kauka posted:nothing, actually it keeps footfungus away sometimes when you check out the wiki articles on these companies you can catch corporate whitewash edits that last for a few hours or days at a time
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Jun 22, 2008 21:59
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I found the song for the thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM
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Hemogoblin! posted:Notso much with coral bleaching — which is much more widespread and dangerous: You think that's bad, you may not want to hear about ocean acidification. The ocean is one of the largest carbon sinks in the world. About one-third of all the CO2 we put into the atmosphere is absorbed by it, delaying global warming. However, this comes at a cost: the pH of the ocean is decreasing at an incredibly alarming rate.  Now, a few years ago, U.S., Japan and Germany started looking into pumping liquified waste carbon from power generation directly into the ocean, to prevent it from reaching the atmosphere. The first small-scale tests they performed in aquariums were very startling: snails and crabs were dissolving practically before their eyes. CO2 in water forms carbonic acid, which breaks down into hydrogen ions and bicarbonate. Free hydrogen ions combine with carbonate ions in the water to produce more bicarbonate. Carbonate ions are required by every organism that creates calcified shells/exoskeletons. We're talking all crustaceans, most mollusks, hundreds of kinds of phyto- and zooplankton, and coral. Results: Economic: Commercial fishing will not exist in 50 years. Flat out, WILL NOT EXIST. Almost all commercial fish rely on calciferous plankton, without them, they will not survive. All coastal communities worldwide who subsist on fishing will be unable to survive, we're talking hundreds of millions of people. Ecological: We're talking about a change in the ecology of the ocean unseen for hundreds of millions of years. As best humanity can determine, the oceans have never been affected this quickly by anything before. The corals will die, and then the fish will die, and almost nothing short of a massive shift in human activity will change this. We're looking at oceanic extinction on the level of the big one, 250 million years ago, that killed off 90% of all marine life. Some choice quotes from a panel of marine scientists four months ago: "We're entering a new geologic era." "We talk about it calmly in a way that's not appropriate for the scale of what we are doing." "Society right now is not willing to pay the tab for a lot of things... we are inflicting these changes and all this chaos on those who will come later." http://oceanacidification.wordpress.com/ http://www.ocean-acidification.net/ I feel bad for anyone with kids right now
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Jun 25, 2008 14:14
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Necc0 posted:Does anyone have enough information to start a feel-good version of this thread? Like how the CEO of the Red Cross has a salary of 700k or something. how is that in any way 'feel good'
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Jun 25, 2008 16:55
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Necc0 posted:For a company as large as the Red Cross that's not much. just because modern ceo salaries are absurd doesn't mean seven hundred goddamn thousand dollars isn't excessive for the ceo of a publicly funded charity
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Jun 25, 2008 17:17
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Necc0 posted:well go find some CEO's who are more deserving of praise and make a thread so that we all can gain a little more faith in humanity. man you aint gonna regain faith in humanity trying to find 'good' ceos only way you gain a little more faith in humanity is cute pics of animals 
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