A 2018 voyage into a huge marine sinkhole in Belize went viral in August as “proof that humans are terrible.”
The newly-viral Great Blue Hole off the Belizean coast of the Caribbean Sea, which is roughly 318 meters (1,043 feet) across and roughly 124 meters (407 feet) deep, is a popular tourist attraction, according to the New York Post. The site was largely unexplored due to technical issues, but that changed in 2018.
Billionaire Richard Branson was the first to get a team to the bottom of the hole — and the discoveries within have gone viral, again, as “proof that humans are terrible,” apparently, NYP stated. As the team made its way into the hole, it noticed that life started to vanish around the 90-meter mark.
Great blue hole off the coast of Belize. Caused by climate change. (A long tine ago) pic.twitter.com/5yV15TmjwI
— layne (@laynedurand) September 16, 2020
The closer the team got to the bottom, the more they realized why everything was dying: the hole was full of trash. Apparently there was everything from a GoPro camera, a two-liter Coca Cola bottle, and even the bodies of two divers who were lost during a previous expedition.
For some reason, Branson said the hole was “one of the starkest reminders of the danger of climate change [he had] ever seen,” the NYP noted. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Media Matters Launches Misinformation Campaign Against Joe Rogan, His Guests)
It’s unclear why Branson thinks that the hole has anything to do with climate change. It doesn’t. The hole is believed to have formed at some point during the last 14,000 years, a period of mass climatological shifts that would make any so-called climate protester collapse in terror.
Other than that, the trash within the hole is totally unrelated to climate change. Perhaps Branson meant to say that it’s a form of “environmental degredation.” But let’s be honest, the trash in the hole is just the future’s archaeological discovery, and has zero impact on the climate. Duh.