Acid rain

Think about a lot of the things that we've heard over the years.

Man, when I was a kid, you know what we heard all the time? What did you hear? Acid rain is going to kill everybody.

Really? Acid rain.

It was always acid rain.

Acid rain.

You know how much acid rain killed anybody? I've never seen acid rain before.

None.

Then it was the ozone layers destroyed.

And so I was I just literally saw it like right before we log back in because I was waiting to see if if we got any kind of email back or not.

But that's another thing is trying to get gas masks and like anything that can withstand because acid rain, I feel is a very real thing.

That's going to be a potential in some type of a zombie zombie, but some type of apocalyptic situation.

You mean like acid that could burn our skin? Oh, God, I thought you meant acid rain like erode stone.

I'm like, I mean, we got that.

No, no, I

It's the stuff that we're putting in the cloud seeding.

That is actually from carbon monoxide from our cars to the shit that we're, the aluminum that we're putting in the skies right now.

they're all complaining about...

Yeah, like it's acid rain or some shit.

Which

means at that point, they're just as infected.

And then they're like they had to slowly do paint job every fucking scene they were in.

They had to do more makeup.

The reason I brought up Tina being alone earlier is because when the rain started, we jumped back over to the medical supply and she has to she breaks inside because she the acid rains hitting her.

Yeah.

I'm not sure how you...

Do I go with the French? Acid rain.

Nobody worries about acid rain anymore.

But there's somebody...

Washington is filled with people who care.

Energy for 24-hour AC? That's radioactive waste in your ground bar.

Mass production? Acid rain.

Overnight delivery on a new flash sale.

You think it's free to live in a world where kids die in sweatshops, to make clothes sent to warehouses where the workers piss in bottles, shipped out by truckers on enough speed to drive 72 hours straight, even if it kills her and her little knock-knock out on

That's because they've destroyed the planet.

And when it rains, it's kind of like acid rain.

Acid rain.

It's not like it is.

It's...

And I remember, I

remember the movie in the, yeah.

In the new Blade Runner movie, the one with Ryan Gosling there, I remember this scene where he goes out to like a farm in the very beginning and then he comes back into the city and then there's like a thing about acid rain and it gives him like a warning while he's driving in his car.

The question that haunts scientists is simple but profound.

What could possibly kill ninety percent of all life on Earth? What force could be so powerful, so relentless, that it could devastate ecosystems that have been stable for tens of millions of years? Was it volcanic eruptions, climate change, poison gas, acid rain, oxygen depletion? The answer, as we'll discover, is all of the above and worse.

See, for a long time, nobody really understood what happened at the end of the Permian period.

The fossil record showed a sudden dramatic disappearance of species, but the cause was a complete mystery.

As the decades turned into centuries and the centuries into millennia, the environmental effects started spreading beyond Siberia.

Volcanic gases carried by upper atmosphere winds began affecting weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere.

Acid rain, created when sulfur dioxide combined with water vapor, started falling in regions thousands of miles from the eruption sites.

Rivers became more acidic, lakes began dying, and the temperature started rising.