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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiscayne Bay is suffocating, and Miami-Dade County leaders continue to let it die Opinion
I saw this opinion piece and I thought it was an interest read
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Miami-Dades 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
(24,783 posts)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
(31,261 posts)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
(17,663 posts)An intelligent species may arise for the first time.
FM123
(10,054 posts)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
(8,295 posts)But anyway, I also live South Florida. Ive lived here all my life and I work in Miami Dade.
I never knew this was a problem. Its heartbreaking to read.
Thanks for the link by the way! Hes kicking the can... typical.