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bool_idiot_is_true t1_jdqiacz wrote

Reply to comment by Automatic_Randomizer in Extrapolation is awesome by lostsoul2016

> Like, why are whales endangered in the future? Did we run out of oil or chemistry and need to hunt them again? > >

They mentioned krill populations collapsing which would starve filter feeders like baleen whales. Climate change has a lot of implications that we're still nailing down. Changes in acidity, salinity, sea temps and a whole bunch of other things might cause a food chain to break down. If phytoplankton populations also start dyeing it'll be bad.

>Some kids are afflicted with "summer heart" because the average global temperature is 2 degrees higher. This is the future, and we see that they have great VR and air conditioning. Kids don't play outside now, why would that change?

The two degrees is a global average. It's not going to be evenly distributed. Local temps have the potential to be much higher.

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Automatic_Randomizer t1_jds62u7 wrote

> They mentioned krill populations collapsing

> Local temps have the potential to be much higher.

Both of your explanations make sense. Many viewers would wonder about those kind of questions, so the writers could have worked some exposition into the dialogue. Maybe that would sound preachy, I don't know.

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kugglaw t1_je438x9 wrote

Both of those things are mentioned in the dialogue, a couple times I think.

Also, so much of this information is just public knowledge know - most people get that increased temperatures would have bad consequences for public health or lead to the extinction of certain species.

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