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Old 10-03-2019, 04:23 PM   #7260 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
The problem is the rate at which these changes are occurring. What historically took 10's of thousands of years, we are doing in 100 years. Coral, trees, ect can only migrate across the Earth from one place to another at a very limited speed.
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Evolution to adapt to changing ocean PH can only happen even slower. Based on thousands of generations of genetic mutation of survival of the fittest.
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We are bowling over the biosphere much faster than it can migrate or adapt.
Good point, and that's what I'm often saying, that it isn't the change that is the problem, it's the rate of change.

The rate of change dictates the rate of stress on all organisms.

While plants and animals cannot accelerate their adaptation consciously, humans can. This is what freebeard suggests when talking about hardening our infrastructure. Hardening infrastructure may be an easier/cheaper solution to the problem. We're pretty good at adapting farming to where it's most suitable too.
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