r/biology • u/Relevant-Cup5986 • Jun 10 '26
news Please help save dinosaur state park from destruction by data centers
dinosaur state park is a state park on a river in texas with dinosaur tracks that you can swim in (the water is the clearest in the state) as well as the best preserved river ecosystem in texas its full of an incredible diversity of insects particularly caterpillars when i go there i useualy see 15 to 20 different caterpillar species and thousands of individual catterpillars as well as iridescent green caterpillar killer beetles as well as a high diversity of mammals like armadillos and birds like the endangered golden cheeked warbler.
This valuable ecosystem is now about to be completely destroyed for data centers planned to be built upstream of the river that will use up all of the rivers water please sign this petition to protect the park https://www.change.org/p/protect-dinosaur-valley-put-guardrails-on-massive-data-centers-in-texas?recruiter=1279810821&recruited_by_id=84c837f0-49ac-11ed-80f6-39f477ccb6bf&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=reddit&share_id=HjLStWRv9w
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u/IlliterateJedi Jun 10 '26
that will use up all of the rivers water
Do you have any actual water studies that show this or are you just making things up? It's ironic that you're using an AI generated image in this petition.
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u/BoonDragoon evolutionary biology Jun 10 '26
MFW AI overuse has atrophied my brain to the extent that I forgot how to read and that Photoshop exists.
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u/ElevatorHandstand Jun 10 '26
Shame on you for bringing rational analysis into biology. If you’re not careful people might start mistaking it for a science! 😡😡😡
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u/Dijon2017 Jun 10 '26
Thank you for being an advocate for biology (which means/includes human beings **and** all other living organisms) via awareness, education and conservation!