Climate change is going to happen, and it will be ugly. Regardless of what the media reports, it cannot be stopped. We will have climate change between at least 2 °C and 3.5 °C; this is the scientific consensus.
So let’s park climate change and carbon mitigation and deal with a more pressing issue: the destruction of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and the loss of nature on land and marine life in the Oceans.
Most people now live a life insulated from nature, don’t think it really matters, or don’t appreciate or understand the importance of life on earth. In order for the planet to be sustainable, humanity must be in balance with the rest of nature. Over the last 70 years, this has definitely not been the case; we have destroyed ecosystems, employed destructive farming and fishing, and now we are poisoning everything with toxic chemicals, plastic, and partially combusted carbon.
We will survive climate change, but we will not survive the annihilation of nature and the life support system for the planet. If we had not destroyed marine life and 50% of terrestrial ecology, then we would not have climate change because of the carbon sequestration by nature.
Even if you eliminated man from the planet, the earth would not be okay because the toxic legacy would continue to destroy nature on land and in marine life for hundreds of years. Carbon tunnel vision is going to kill the planet; we must start eliminating toxicity and pollution to regenerate ecosystems and bring back nature. Humanity is part of nature, and without it, we cannot survive.
We have no more than 10 years to make the planet a non-toxic habitat, or it will be too late to stop the total destruction of nature over the next 20 years. This is the best chance of survival and also to stop climate change: place your trust in Nature unless you wish to place your trust in chemical or oil companies and an invention to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Marine life in the North Atlantic may collapse this year.
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Stark, powerful and brutal truth. Just so stupid of humanity to knowingly continue to destroy every part of the earth. The air, the water, the land – all hammered by humans believing there is no end to what we can inflict.
For a species that considers itself so smart, how could we have been so foolish?
Gary
Hi Gary, Agreed, it is depressing and the latest news isnt getting any better; https://seahorsepoint.org/2023/09/15/over-human-population-this-is-not-a-problem/
However there are solutions that can turn it around, they just need to be implemented and that is now our focus.