Biscayne Bay is suffocating, and Miami-Dade County leaders continue to let it die Opinion

[In It to Win It]

I saw this opinion piece and I thought it was an interest read

Onlookers recently were shocked as thousands of fish and rays swam to the surface along the shores of northern Biscayne Bay gasping for air. The bay’s dissolved oxygen levels had tanked. Thousands more fish had already suffocated to death. In desperation, local officials sprayed water into the bay from pumps on the shore and vessels, all in a vain attempt to raise oxygen levels.

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Miami-Dade’s leadership was made aware that there have been many significant seagrass die-offs over the past 20 years throughout Biscayne Bay. Driven by algal blooms and low dissolved oxygen, the die-offs were reported in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2016. DERM reported a nearly 90 percent baywide loss of seagrasses from historical levels, from Barnes Sound in the southern Bay to Julia Tuttle Basin in the northern Bay.
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Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article245548845.html#storylink=cpy

[cilla4progress]

1. We've killed the earth

with over-population and over-industrialization.

In turn, we kill ourselves.

Only a matter of time till it's unliveable for the majority.

[Blue_true]

3. Not really. We will kill ourselves before we kill the Earth.

The Earth still has around 6 billion years to live, only the Sun will kill it. The guess here is that we will be lucky to live longer as a species than dinasaurs did. We are only around 11-13 million years in and have created a lot of mess, Dinas lived 250+ million years on Earth before perishing.

[Chainfire]

5. Who knows, a hundred million years or so

An intelligent species may arise for the first time.

[Blue_true]

6. Yes.

[FM123]

2. I can't read the article due to paywall, but I live down here in South FL so I am familiar with this

It is a horrible situation. I don't now if this article addressed this, but there are concrete things that can be done but Gimenez (Repug mayor who is running in Nov to take away our Dem Congresswoman Murcasel-Powell's seat) that he doesn't want to do.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/08/31/task-force-submits-more-than-60-recommendations-to-save-biscayne-bay/

[In It to Win It]

4. Didn't know it had a paywall. I don't even subscribe

But anyway, I also live South Florida. I’ve lived here all my life and I work in Miami Dade.

I never knew this was a problem. It’s heartbreaking to read.

Thanks for the link by the way! He’s kicking the can... typical.

[FM123]

7. Hello neighbor!