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Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cyanobacteria are not animals, or even eukaryotes. It's right there in the name.

I'd personally agree that being eaten is bad whether it's by Jeffrey Dahmer or a lion, but that's a weird way of arguing for it.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change animal with non-human.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, I see. Yeah, all sorts of organisms can have impacts we don't like (and it is worth pointing out that biodiversity is itself a human goal).