Comments on: Vanishing Seagrass: as Important as Coral Reefs (But Way Less Sexy)

By: oxjr

oxjr — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:26:17 +0000

Mother nature always eleminates disruptive species over time. We have become disruptive…. if we don’t figure out a way to stop the imbalances we create than she will find a way to get rid of us…. and don’t worry.. the seagrass will come back pretty quickly after we are gone.

By: nemski

nemski — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:22:12 +0000

Non-sexy science? Blasphemy!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:27:26 +0000

The human population is eventually going to decrease, whether because we stop breeding like rabbits or because millions of us starve- something is going to happen. I’d advocate birth control if I had to choose. Or, maybe we need a high population to increase our chances of surviving a cataclysm. Who knows?

By: ME

ME — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:03 +0000

Unless the number of people goes down or we figure out how to exponentially decrease our impact on the environment per person, isn’t this kind of thing going to inevitably get worse? People need to live somewhere, and we are going to inhabit places even if there are ecosystems crucial to the homeostasis of the planet residing there. The planet is going to change. We might have a better chance of figuring out how to breathe our own CO2 than we have of stopping its accumulation.