Posted on 02/18/2019 5:10:06 AM PST by rktman
I stood behind a worn shopping center outside of Crystal Springs, Florida, looking for the refuge where a hundred manatees were gathered for winter. I found them clustered in the emerald-colored spring, trying to enjoy a wedge of sunlight and avoid the hordes of people like me, boxing them in on kayaks and tour boats, leering over wooden decks. The nearby canals were lined with expensive homes and docks with jetskis. One manatee breached the water for a breath, and I could see the propeller scar on its back.
2018 was the second deadliest year on record for manatees. Like many of our coastal species, they’re vulnerable to habitat loss and warming seas, which are more hospitable to algal blooms and red tide. Science has given us the foresight we need to make decisions that will reduce the future suffering of other species and ourselves, but we don’t heed it. Why?
Studies show that humans don’t respond well to abstract projections. We overvalue short-term benefits, such as driving SUVs, burning coal and building waterfront real estate. We choose these extravagances even though they impede beneficial long-term outcomes, such as saving threatened species, or reducing the intensity of climate change.
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She is probably a liberal that wants as many people moving to America as possible....go figure.
Oldecobuyer has a copyright on it. ;-)
Manatees are not even native to Florida.
So, you’ve never blackened a steak or deep fried strip steak that’s been breaded? Just askin’........
LOL. The surest evidence that nobody really believes the global warming hoax is that wealthy leftists keep paying huge money for ocean front property in places like Florida.
“So, you’ve never blackened a steak or deep fried strip steak that’s been breaded? Just askin’........”
Those types are most often used for fish.
But nice try.
Gimme a nudge when the water inundated the first couple of blocks of Miami. Until then it’s fiction.
My mistake. Apologies.
And don’t forget the sky is falling too.
How is saving threatened species a long-term benefit? Couldn’t it be argued that we’re disrupting the Darwinian cycle by interfering with natural extinction processes? Aside from giving some blubber-huggers a warm fuzzy, what value do manatees bring mankind?
Could it be God’ s way of saying it’s time and guided people to invent power boats? He does work in mysterious ways. I had some dealings with the save the manatee folks and under it all, they’re just like all the other eco wankers.
Cute southern girl writer
Totally brainwashed by Bennington and Wake Forest and Duke
And Fleet Street
She claims how vibrant and cool South Beach is
That right there establishes her a liar
South Beach is overrun with grotesque thug kulture
If she’d been honest she’d say she didn’t feel safe
Giant brown cellulite asses hanging out of short short jeans and skinny dreadlocked thugs on jap bikes
Swarms of goblins
South Beach is rurnt
Venture south of Lincoln road at night at your peril
We’re not doing that. Coastal construction and the cost of it should include engineering to protect those communities from know inevitable impacts. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We should be doing it. But perhaps the Army Corps of Engineers think that they already have too many dykes?
I agree. Darwin said it’s about the survival of the fittest. I can’t think of one extinct critter or plant or anything else that is missed.
Same thing on Bolivar in Texas.
Harvey tore it all to pieces.
Today, lots of newer houses.
Next storm...
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