An August 2018 expedition into a huge marine sinkhole in Belize became famous as "proof that humans are terrible."

According to the New York Post, the recently-viralized Great Blue Hole, which is around 124 meters (407 feet) deep and 318 meters (1,043 feet) broad, is a well-liked tourist destination off the coast of Belize. Due to technological difficulties, the site remained mainly underutilized until 2018.

The crew led by billionaire Richard Branson was the first to reach the bottom of the pit, and the findings there have since gained widespread attention as "proof that humans are terrible," according to NYP. The researchers found that around the 90-meter mark, life began to disappear as it made its way further into the pit.

The team gradually understood why everything was dying as they descended further down the hole: it was full of trash. It seems that everything was there, including a GoPro camera, a two-liter Coca-Cola bottle, and even the bodies of two divers who had perished on an earlier excursion.

Branson claimed the crater was "one of the starkest reminders of the danger of climate change [he] had ever seen" for some unknown reason, the NYP reported.

Why Branson thinks the hole has anything to do with climate change is a mystery. Not at all. The hole is thought to have developed at some point over the past 14,000 years, a time of enormous climatological fluctuations that would cause any self-proclaimed climate activist to faint in fright.

Other than that, the garbage inside the hole has nothing to do with global warming. Branson might have meant to remark that it represents a type of "environmental degredation." But let's be honest, the garbage in the pit will only be found in ancient artifacts, thus it has no bearing on the climate.