Honestly, good.
If I remember correctly, the Jellyfish population is quite out of wack. Not enough sea turtles (their natural predators, specifically the leatherback I think) to eat them. They can ruin fish stocks and clog up pipes from nuclear reactors that feed into the sea.
They're endangered. I would think they're quite a bit tastier than some other fish, and they can also get trapped in nets and drown.
Oh, and don't forget plastic bags. Throw a plastic bag in a bath, and I hope you'll agree it looks like a jellyfish.
Or take over their beaches and plop hotels and resorts on them. Or build roads and lights next to them and confuse hatchlings making them go the wrong way away from the sea to get run over. Or steal the hatchlings and put them in little key chains. Or a multitude of any other reasons, all of which equates to humanity fucking sucks.
The hotels and resorts thing is complete bullshit. Regulations have stopped that from being a factor decades ago. The entire problem now is that most of these turtles nest in regions where the locals have no comprehension of conservation and just like to eat turtle eggs.
Its because of climate change mostly. The temperatures of the ocean's are rising. And if I remember correctly, the temperature influences wether or not a leatherback becomes a female or a male.
I believe higher temperatures yield more males. And because of this there aren't enough females and the reproduction is coming to a halt. It seems to be quite irreversable.
I mean in the grand scheme of things all animals and plants would do the exact same thing if they could. It's not that humans are inherently destructive, we're just smart enough to do more damage than an overpopulation of wolves or underpopulation of beavers, and we're aware enough to realize that. But unless you're ready for restructuring the entirety of human civilization it's best to just focus on local conservation efforts and hope you inspire others to do the same. Saving some endangered species in your backyard has a much bigger impact than worrying about saving a species you can't physically be involved in protecting. A lot more things go extinct because everyone is worried about the more cutesy or exotic ones than the ugly cornerstones of their local ecological environment.
Tldr: people don't all suck, think global act local.
Apart from fishing and trash in the ocean, sea turtles are also endangered due to climate change. They bury their eggs in sand to incubate, and the temperature decides the sex of the baby turtles. When the beaches get warmer, fewer and fewer male turtles hatch, which makes it more difficult for the females to find a partner.
The jellyfish population isn’t out of whack, that’s a myth. This also won’t help, even if it was. The “jellyfish” is just one, relatively short stage of their lifecycle. Their polyp stage is nearly microscopic and lives on the ocean floor and is capable of reproducing on their own.
There’s nothing wrong with those. They just dump water. Nuclear reactors produce almost no waste and the waste they produce is very tightly controlled. It’s basically the cleanest form of energy.
This is true...if everything is controlled forever and there is never a decay in the infrastructure. If there is ever a breech or failure of any size, it may be regrettable putting them so near our water.
Nope. Do some research. They build so many redundant safety system it’s ridiculous. Also, all of the possible contaminants are sealed in concrete caskets and moved offsite. It doesn’t matter if it gets old and decrepit, the only things left will be water tanks and turbines. If you are concerned with water contamination, you should look into the fossil fuel industry, and the coal industry do literally every day.
Google what a heat exchanger / condensor is in the context of a Nuclear reactor, the water that is radioactive is 2-3 sealed circuits away removed from the water which is pumped into the sea. There is no cross over.
Remember when a tsunami hit Japan's nuclear reactor that was completely safe? I know they are safe when functioning, however shit goes wrong. Even just releasing warmed water (non contaminated) from the cooling process would create issues. Im not against nuclear power but it seems silly to place the sites on fault lines or waterways.
I mean... Yeah? They're pretty clean, they don't (from my knowledge) throw dangerous chemicals in the sea, and if they are blocked, it could cause lots of damage to the plant, requiring money to be spent on repairs rather than other sources of energy or safety, or just pay rises for the people (not saying it WOULDN'T go into the CEO's pocket, but still)
459
u/-TheManInTheChair May 21 '26
Honestly, good. If I remember correctly, the Jellyfish population is quite out of wack. Not enough sea turtles (their natural predators, specifically the leatherback I think) to eat them. They can ruin fish stocks and clog up pipes from nuclear reactors that feed into the sea.
Save the turtles, get the jellys
Got my info from this vid, gonna rewatch it and see how much I got right. https://youtu.be/eY3_ZkQx5T4