Our Oceans are dying. As we humans continue to fill the atmosphere with harmful gasses, our home planet is vanishing to life as we know it. The Oceans are acidifying and all our living animals throughout the globe are slowly meeting their fate.
Ocean acidification is an emerging global problem. At first sight, you might think… oh it’s only the oceans that are being affected by this issue. However; if the oceans become acid like, then they wouldn’t contain any signs of life. If there is no life in the oceans, we are all going to fall to the inevitable feeling of hunger. In other words, we are all going to eventually starve to death unless we do something about this.
The media is “too busy” covering all the new news on climate change, that …show more content…
Our industrial revolution began more than 2 centuries ago. Technology has advanced rapidly since then. But we still make energy as we have for 100s of thousands of years, by setting things on fire. Often, we squander the energy we make, using more than necessary to accomplish our goals. But now we know how to use energy more efficiently, how to do more, with less. Which means getting dramatically more work out of less energy with better technology. If we take this initial step, in addition to reducing carbon pollution, we would also have the very welcome dividend, in the form of economic stimulus because we would be reducing energy bills. We know how to capture energy cleanly through sun light, wind, tides and the heat of the earth’s core. We need to change this to make way to a brighter tomorrow. So imagine you’re living in a house that gets some of its energy from solar panels and also feed of that back into your car when its plugged in at night which would also reduce your electricity bills. This double dividend was never more need by the world economy than it is right …show more content…
To understand our own actions, we sometimes need to view them in a larger context. Planet Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. 3.5 billion years ago, life began. 250 million years ago, dinosaurs appeared. And 200 thousand years ago, Homosaipions. Within that frame work, human civilisation, is brand new. Our industrial society, but an instant. Yet in that instant, we have altered the cause of nature. We have heated the earth’s surface, acidified its oceans, and consumed much of its natural habitat. And now, something extraordinary looms, a mass extinction of animals and plants. Caused not by volcanic eruptions, or the collision of a mediocre, but by the actions of one species,
Ocean acidification is an emerging global problem. At first sight, you might think… oh it’s only the oceans that are being affected by this issue. However; if the oceans become acid like, then they wouldn’t contain any signs of life. If there is no life in the oceans, we are all going to fall to the inevitable feeling of hunger. In other words, we are all going to eventually starve to death unless we do something about this.
The media is “too busy” covering all the new news on climate change, that …show more content…
Our industrial revolution began more than 2 centuries ago. Technology has advanced rapidly since then. But we still make energy as we have for 100s of thousands of years, by setting things on fire. Often, we squander the energy we make, using more than necessary to accomplish our goals. But now we know how to use energy more efficiently, how to do more, with less. Which means getting dramatically more work out of less energy with better technology. If we take this initial step, in addition to reducing carbon pollution, we would also have the very welcome dividend, in the form of economic stimulus because we would be reducing energy bills. We know how to capture energy cleanly through sun light, wind, tides and the heat of the earth’s core. We need to change this to make way to a brighter tomorrow. So imagine you’re living in a house that gets some of its energy from solar panels and also feed of that back into your car when its plugged in at night which would also reduce your electricity bills. This double dividend was never more need by the world economy than it is right …show more content…
To understand our own actions, we sometimes need to view them in a larger context. Planet Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. 3.5 billion years ago, life began. 250 million years ago, dinosaurs appeared. And 200 thousand years ago, Homosaipions. Within that frame work, human civilisation, is brand new. Our industrial society, but an instant. Yet in that instant, we have altered the cause of nature. We have heated the earth’s surface, acidified its oceans, and consumed much of its natural habitat. And now, something extraordinary looms, a mass extinction of animals and plants. Caused not by volcanic eruptions, or the collision of a mediocre, but by the actions of one species,