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Environment & Energy

Systematic Chaos

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1. Don't think of it as a beautiful, irreplaceable lake....

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 12:52 AM

Jun 2015

...think of it as "noise", my friends.

Out of all the over 72 quintillion lakes and seas on the planet, Lake Victoria and the Aral Sea merely represent 1 36 quintillionth of the total.

Why do people get so fucking hysterical over things like fresh water and oxygen? Carbon dioxide is fucking life, son.

And so's Alex, but I digress.

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Lake Victoria - Africa's Largest - "On Its Knees" Thanks To Invasives, Sewage, Overfishing [View all] hatrack Jun 2015 OP

Don't think of it as a beautiful, irreplaceable lake.... Systematic Chaos Jun 2015 #1