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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Also, there's a bunch of ways to make Algae blooms in the ocean. Apparently even just dumping a bunch of iron dust in the ocean would cause lots of algae blooms - but we don't do it.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yes, because algae blooms are usually bad for everything but algae. Red tide is a bad thing.

[–] nettle@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

And bad for everything but the algea is bad for the ecosystem the algea relies on to live

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