October 2023 – Seahorse Point

October 25, 2023October 25, 2023

How are we going to survive the next 20 years?

The air we breathe
99.82% of the global land area is exposed to toxic levels of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5)—tiny particles in the air that are linked to lung cancer and heart disease
https://lnkd.in/ezB5f4qP

Wastewater and toxic chemicals
80% of all our wastewater from 8 billion people is discharged into rivers and the oceans without treatment. Almost 100% of all toxic chemicals are discharged into the environment without treatment.
https://lnkd.in/ec4_eDnp

Drinking water and rainwater
All drinking water is contaminated with plastic and toxic chemicals, and some water companies even add ammonium to drinking water to form chloramines, which makes the water even more toxic.
https://lnkd.in/e7YiKSpT

Your food
Most of your food will not contain toxic chemicals such as herbicides, but toxic chemicals are also added on purpose.
https://lnkd.in/e3ycZqP7

Human fertility and the ability of nature to reproduce
At the current rate of decline, male sperm count will be reduced to less than 90%+ due to endocrine disrupting toxic chemicals over the next 20 years. The same applies to most animals in nature because toxic chemicals are now everywhere.
https://lnkd.in/e6pCzShx

Nature
69% of all terrestrial animals have been lost; over 50% of all marine life has been lost compared to 1970; and probable close to 90% since 1900. At the current rate of decline, it will be 90% to 99% respectively over the next 20 years. Humans are part of nature, and without nature, we cannot survive.
https://lnkd.in/epTujT3s
https://lnkd.in/ebieY5vj

Ocean acidification, aerosols, and climate change
Carbon mitigation will not stop ocean acidification; it could accelerate the process. https://lnkd.in/e6m3xQ3d When the ocean pH hits 7.95 in less than 20 years, most marine life will either dissolve or succumb to disease or starvation. The process has started, and the Mediterranean has lost most of its marine life. https://lnkd.in/e_HuQ9Vn

https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

The belief that carbon mitigation is the solution to climate change and our survival is ridiculous. We need to stop all forms of toxic chemical pollution, plastic, and particle pollution and regenerate nature; otherwise, there is little hope for the survival of humanity over the next few decades!
www.goesfoundation.com

October 7, 2023

The planet is becoming sterile……

A recent study suggests that the majority of children born from now on may not be able to have children of their own due to exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in plastic, water, and food.

Over the next 20 to 40 years, most couples will likely be sterile. These chemicals are now everywhere and have concentrated on microplastic. Every litre of rainwater falling on the planet contains microplastics and toxic chemicals.

Sterility not only applies to humans but also to most animals and many plants. Climate change is important, but pollution from toxic chemicals, microplastics, and partially combusted carbon will make it seem like a walk in the park. Check out the sources to learn more.

https://lnkd.in/ehB_6EFV

https://lnkd.in/ehmJdKua

October 7, 2023

Death by a thousand cuts: reasons and solutions for climate change….

Climate change is not just caused by carbon dioxide. It is more like death by a thousand cuts, a metaphor for the gradual accumulation of small injuries or insults, which can eventually lead to a significant negative outcome.

It is ridiculous to believe that we can solve climate change through carbon mitigation. There are thousands of reasons why the earth’s climate and life support system are falling apart. The key is to get down to the common denominator, the reason for life on earth, and the answer is simple: nature and the conditions that support nature.

Our focus should be on regeneration of nature on land and marine life in the oceans, and the greatest threat to nature is pollution from toxic lipophilic oil-based chemicals, plastic, and partially combusted carbon. There are many other reasons, but just these three components probably represent 80%

The combination of chemicals and plastic is killing all marine life. Plastic and chemicals are now in every litre of rainwater everywhere on the planet. This means that everything, everywhere, is poisoned by herbicides, pesticides, PFOS and toxic forever chemicals, there is no escape for humans or nature.

It’s not just one thing—one chemical, one particle—but what they all have in common is being hydrophobic and lipophilic. This means that the most toxic chemicals and particles do not dissolve in water; they are water-hating. Instead of floating on the surface of water, the chemicals get adsorbed and concentrated many thousands of times on the particles, which greatly amplifies their toxicity. The water industry mantra—the solution to pollution is dilution—is wrong in the extreme.

Given that the most toxic chemicals and particles are hydrophobic and are attracted to hydrophobic surfaces, this then gives you the solution. Water filtration systems and air filters that are super hydrophobic could eliminate the pollution. The filtration technology to achieve this task is already available for implementation.

Bioclimatic climate change report
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

October 7, 2023

Prevention is better than cure, but it’s a path we rarely follow.

Take Costa Rica in Central America as an example. They spend 10% per capita on health care compared to the USA, but their care is focused on prevention, not treatment, and their population is much healthier than most people in the USA, and they live a longer, healthier life. The environment is also benefiting hugely and has become an important part of the tourism industry for the country.

Climate change is the same. Carbon dioxide and methane are symptoms of climate change that have developed into a self-reinforcing loop that is also causing climate change, but we fail to tackle the root cause to break the loop to prevent what will be catastrophic climate disruption.

Nature, such as cyanobacteria, made all our atmosphere. Nature also regulates our climate; for example, water vapour is 70+% of all greenhouse gases, and aerosols of water and natural particles are responsible for clouds, rain, and the planet’s temperature, yet it is not even part of the COP or the IPCC research on climate change.

https://lnkd.in/eF38qsKe

There is no hope of reversing climate change if we follow the current strategy of carbon mitigation. Indeed, we are too late, but we can stop catastrophic climate change and the destruction of nature, the life support system for the planet is we take action now.

This is not something that is going to happen in the distant future. Unless we eliminate toxic chemical pollution, plastic, and partially combusted carbon from the atmosphere, soil, rives, and the world’s oceans, then, in the words of biologists, there will be a regime shift. This is another way of saying the ecosystem will collapse, the life support system for the planet will fail, and there will be mass extinctions far more serious than when the meteorite slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs.

We need to start dealing with pollution and regeneration of nature on a massive, world-wide scale, and it needs to start now with everyone.

Bioclimatic climatic change report; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

October 1, 2023

What’s more important, climate disruption or sustainable living…?

We live in Central America, and many indigenous people still live a sustainable lifestyle, but it is becoming increasingly difficult. We are trying to develop an educational and research centre that will be 100% sustainable and nature-positive (www.Seahorsepoint.org). One of the objectives will be to work with indigenous people to provide them with some of the tools they need to revert back to a non-polluting lifestyle in harmony with nature.

High-income countries have completely failed to be sustainable, and if you are not sustainable, then there will be an end point when everything crashes down. This has already started, and it will become increasingly difficult to sustain the current lifestyle. In effect, it is inevitable that it is going to crash.

There is still time for high-income countries to change to one that just consume what it needs rather than what it wants, but I doubt this will happen.

Getting back to the question, What’s more important, climate disruption or sustainable living…? The answer is, they are both the same: if we live a sustainable life, we also stop climate destruction.