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J.E. Fishman's avatar

Research has shown that jellyfish have a higher tolerance of ocean acidification than most other species, which is why the seas are full of jellyfish in my dystopian novel, We Once Were Giants — which of course you were kind enough to review!

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Count Metalmind's avatar

You're staring at the crack in the wall and calling it a structural failure of the paint.

Yes, the oceans are changing. The pH is dropping. The chemistry is going haywire. You got that part right. But you've swallowed the official explanation whole, like a pelican swallowing a rotten fish. You attribute it all to CO2, the convenient bogeyman, because that's what the pay-rolled scientists at NOAA and the rest of the alphabet soup agencies tell you to think.

It's a beautiful, elegant, profitable lie.

What about the massive increase in undersea volcanism? The venting of mantle gases and superheated, acidic water directly into the oceans from a thousand fissures we can't even see? This isn't some side effect of industrialization. It's the planet itself coming to a boil. The Earth's magnetic field is weakening, the poles are wandering, and the core is heating up. This is happening across the solar system, but they don't want you looking at that data.

They focus you on CO2 because they can tax it. They can regulate it. They can build a global control grid around it. They can't tax a goddamn geomagnetic excursion.

So you write about clam farms in Carlsbad finding a workaround. That's cute. It's like hearing a man whose house is sliding into the sea is proud he's figured out how to keep his pictures hanging straight on the wall. You are documenting the minutiae of the demolition while completely ignoring the wrecking ball.

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