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Swarna_Keanu t1_j16ia3w wrote

Reply to comment by RSN_Kabutops in Climate Impacts Are Increasing; Textbooks Aren’t Keeping Pace: "biology textbooks are failing to share adequate information about climate change" by Additional-Two-7312

As others already mentoned there is a huge overlap between the effects of climate change and biologiy - from species distribution to ecology to even what happens to whole strata of species. Small example - some sea turtles gender ratio is linked to the temperature of the ocean and is shifting more and more as temperatures rise - with an increased risk of extinction. There's loads of that interaction.

But Climate Change also is relevant to near any academic topic: From engineering (most of our infrastructure is not climate change ready) to social and political science (it has and will continue to have massive impacts in both areas) to psychology (that we don't act is a psychological issue - not one of the natural sciences) to medicine to forestry to animal husbandry and soil science to ...

There is no area of what is true and factual and real about our world that will not be altered in some way as our atmospheric systems change.

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kslusherplantman t1_j16wd9t wrote

Based on that reasoning, we should be learning about waves from physics in biology since they are important to biology…

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Chetkica t1_j17a2f8 wrote

Thats an utterly false analogy. We are talking about changing ecosystems (due to climate change), and pupils learning wrong outdated information, not adding geophysics to bio class.

No injections from other sciences are being added (not learning geophysics there) just ecology being adapted to the times and context being added. Otherwise you're learning not ecology but paleoecology

edit; here; https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/zryepn/climate_impacts_are_increasing_textbooks_arent/j16fofz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

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kslusherplantman t1_j17bmgx wrote

Oh, but they don’t study ecosystems in every biology class…

So THATS a false analogy in your own right!

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Chetkica t1_j17e5kh wrote

what are you even saying.

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kslusherplantman t1_j17eojw wrote

Using your own words against you…

do they study ecosystems in every biology class? Nope!

So therefore expecting to have that in EVERY biology class is also a false analogy.

I was being hyperbolic to prove a point.

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Chetkica t1_j17jv2m wrote

Climate change and anthropogenic pollution have impacts worth mentioning beyond just ecology: e.g. evolutionary pressures of climate change (evolutionary biology), impacts of microplastics on the human body or corals (human and marine biology), degree and speed of extinction of different species, changes to biomes (biogeography), plastic eating microbes (microbiology) and so on and on.

No idea what kind of inner conflict this rambling is symptomatic of but i think our time can be better spent than this nonsense.

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GhostRobot55 t1_j17ty29 wrote

But what's the point of your point, or are you just being contrarion because why not?

Shocking that your main reddit activity is growing drugs. I don't even have a problem with drugs, but you seem juvenile.

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