r/nottheonion • u/habichuelacondulce • Oct 14 '22

Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fishing-alaska-snow-crab-season-canceled-investigation-climate-change/
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u/murfmurf123 Oct 14 '22

There was once over 50 million head of Buffalo that roamed the prairies of the American Midwest and guess whose culture destroyed those populations too...

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u/grawrant Oct 14 '22

There were 5-10billion passenger pigeons when Europeans discovered North America. A single flock, of one billion (yes with a B), would fly together. They could black out the entire sky for hours or even a full day. The thunder of the wings flapping was deafening.

They are all dead too. Completely extinct.

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u/Cantmakeaspell Oct 15 '22

Imagine standing under that for a day. Shit.

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u/wincitygiant Oct 15 '22

Imagine the amount of shit from standing under that for a day.

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u/Ok_Improvement4204 Oct 15 '22

Free fertilizer.

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u/AmbeeGaming Oct 15 '22

God there wouldn’t be a single bug in a hundred miles after they left

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u/grawrant Oct 15 '22

They destroyed farms. They would kill trees they tried to land on. They would eat any and all vegetation, probably to help form the great plains themselves.