We are all part of nature and must live in harmony, do no harm and try to do some good
The second largest coral reef in the world is rapidly being destroyed.
I wonder when they will make the connection between chemical and particle pollution to disease and bleaching. Sargassum caused by eutrophication from Brasil and South Africa also have a major impact with regards to causing arsenic and heavy metal pollution..
All of the answers are there, and solutions are ready, but it is still blamed on climate change, for which carbon mitigation on its own is not a solution.
Over 100 million sharks are killed every year as by-catch or just for their fins to make soup.
The survival of all marine life depends upon top level predators to keep the system in balance, yet we systematically destroy sharks, dolphins and whales. Over 20,000 dolphins were killed in the Bay of Biscay every year as a by catch, now they are largely gone.
Humanity depends upon healthy marine life, but we are rapidly approaching the end point. We are 100% not going to stop climate change by carbon mitigation alone, unless we start to regenerate nature on land and marine life in the oceans. Humanity is linked to the oceans, if we destroy the oceans then we can not survive.
A Prof from Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institute In Florida reporting on a mass of Sargassum twice the width of the USA heading to Florida from the Caribbean.
The main issues reported….. it might upset Spring break and tourism……. Give is a break!
The Sargassum caused by pollution from Brazil and Africa and fed by inputs from the Caribbean, can double in mass everyday 10 days. Once it has used up all the nutrient such as phosphate, nitrates, and trace nutrients, the natural flora, phytoplankton that are the root of the Atlantic food chain are deprived. This leads to a crash in zooplanktonic animals, fish, birds and whales. The impact to the ecosystem is colossal. When we crossed the Atlantic last year in s/v Copepod, there were less than 1 zooplankton in 80 litres of water, there should have been at least 1 in every litre of water. When we reported on this last year, we were reported as being alarmist, well it’s started. The alkalinity of the water will be reduced, there will be a drop in pH and there could well be a localised cascade reaction. By localised I mean right across the Atlantic Ocean between 15 to 30 deg North and South.
Once the Sargassum has used up all the phosphate it starts to take Arsenic and heavy metals out of the oceanic water. When the Sargassum decomposes in Mangroves and on beaches of the Caribbean, arsenic is released back into the water, killing life in the Mangroves and coral reefs. These habitats are the breeding grounds for 25% of all the fish in the Ocean.
We are witnessing the death of an Ocean, and all they are concerned about is Spring Break….
The GOES report https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation…its going to happen
https://lnkd.in/embE278D
Cosmetics cause cancer, damage unborn foetus, destroy your skin and make you fat. It’s not just women, many men’s cosmetic products are just as bad.
Parabens (and oxybenzone) are EDCs endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemicals widely used as preservatives in the cosmetic, pharmaceuticals, and food industries because of their antimicrobial properties. We are paying for the huge profits of cosmetic companies, in pain suffering and early death.
When Oxybenzone is exposed to sunlight it changes the wavelength of short wavelength UV light to a longer wavelength. The energy released by the process generates free radicals of oxygen, peroxide, percarbonate and perchloride,
The free radicals have 10 times higher oxidation potential than bleach and will kill all bacteria. The free radicals will also oxidise and age your skin and is the reason why all UV screens are very, very toxic. The best and safest option is a sunblock that just stops the light from reaching your skin. Sun blocks usually contain Zinc Oxide or Titanium Dioxide, do not use the products containing nanoparticles.
Just Stop It
image from Vogue The toxic beauty; https://lnkd.in/eB-tWCFR
#food#cosmetics#pharmaceuticals#beauty
State of knowledge and environmental and human health impacts
The millions of tonnes of plastic already in the environment are going to breakdown into nano and then molecular plastic. The toxicity level will increase by thousands if not millions of times, even if we stop all plastic pollution now.
Are we too late even from a blanket precautionary approach? The good news is that many of the thermal plastics will decompose over a period of a few years.
Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation…its going to happen
https://lnkd.in/embE278D
A team of international scientists has completed a sweeping analysis of ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic, and the news isn’t good. In recent years, the rate of melting has accelerated in many places, and the overall trend continues to worsen. The researchers are throwing around words like “disastrous” and “devastating,” but what about the bright side? There isn’t one—the days when climate change warnings came with suggestions to do X so we could prevent Y may be over.
https://lnkd.in/eBtrMP4C
www.goesfoundation.com
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
https://lnkd.in/e67pSW6f#climatechange
Carbon dioxide is not the main problem…. Even if we became carbon neutral tomorrow, atmospheric CO2 will still pass 500ppm and oceanic pH will still drop below pH7.95, and all coral reefs including most marine life will simply dissolve, along with the food supply for 2 billion people and any chance of stopping climate change.
We could survive climate change, we will not survive the total destruction of the oceans in less than 25 years.
The GOES Report … https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
COP26 Presentation….. https://lnkd.in/g-axggNz
Actions and solutions www.Goesfoundation.com
The slide below is the contents of 100ml of seawater that we collected from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean 1000km from land. Its full of plastic fibres and thousands of particles of partially combusted carbon that contain carcinogenic PHAS (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and heavy metals. The carbon comes from the burning of fossil fuels, 300 million tonnes a year is burnt by the shipping industry and 1 million tonnes of sub 50um particles end up in the oceans every year.
We have wiped out more than 90% of life in the Equatorial Atlantic.
Other reports confirm 50% loss of krill in the North Atlantic. https://lnkd.in/ef22NiNa
Given that plankton are the life support system for the planet, humanity is finished unless we take action now.
#climatechange#hydrocarbons#food#marine#shipping
Chicken or egg, climate change and loss of NATURE they are the same thing. With regards to the loss of NATURE we have an accurate timeline from the WWF report and the GOES report.
2045 is the end point, beyond which everything gets really bad, 90% or more of nature will be gone and maybe humanity. We can’t survive without nature so it’s not difficult to see what’s going to happen.
Terrestrial life takes 60 years to double in biomass, because most life in the oceans are under 1 mm is size, it only takes 3 days for biomass to double. The planet has thrown us a lifeline, if we stop polluting and destroying the world’s oceans now and have a non toxic ecosystem there is and outside chance that we will survive, but i guess because of human nature we will just ignore it and throw the lifeline back.
what do you think is going to happen?
The regeneration of nature on land and marine life in the oceans could stop climate change as detailed in the GOES report and in a new study published in Nature Journal. So why do we keep destroying habitats, poisoning, the oceans with toxic chemicals and over exploiting nature for short term commercial gains.?
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
Abstract….Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These solutions are viewed as having the ancillary benefit of protecting habitats and landscapes to conserve animal species diversity. However, this reasoning undervalues the role animals play in controlling the carbon cycle. We present scientific evidence showing that protecting and restoring wild animals and their functional roles can enhance natural carbon capture and storage. We call for new thinking that includes the restoration and conservation of wild animals and their ecosystem roles as a key component of natural climate solutions that can enhance the ability to prevent climate warming beyond 1.5 °C.
#climatechange #conservation #diversity #marine
https://lnkd.in/eaZmXEGU
