Month: June 2024

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Saved by a can of beer

Saved by a can of beer
Sir Robin Knox Johnson, the first person to sail non-stop around the world.

When he sailed sailing vessel Suhaili around the world in 1968, there were at least 4 times more fish, whales and marine life in the worlds Oceans. Marine life is now dying at a rate of at least 2% year on year and over the next 20 years, there will be 50 times less life in comparison to 1900.

The Oceans are dying, the life support system for the planet is collapsing and we are losing the main regulator of the climate, because the focus is on carbon. In any event, nothing is being done to reduce carbon emissions, so it almost a total waste of time.

Sir Robin required sponsorship to help finance his voyage, he went out to industry in the UK, and the response was a £5 gift token for chocolate from Cadburys,  and 10 crates of beer from Tennents in Scotland. Sir Robin later said that he lost most of his water in 3 storms and if it wasn’t for the beer, he may not have made it around the world. It was my father, when he managed Tennents brewery, that donated the beer.

The photo is of Sir Robin and I just before I joined Clipper Around the World Race to crew on the leg between Rio De Janeiro and Cape Town. I chose this leg because it takes you into the rolling 40’s for some serious sailing and marine life. During the 18 day sail in 2015, we did not see any whales. This was a shock to my system and as a result, we started www.GoesFoundation.com to start answering some questions.

We have now completed stage 1 of GOES and the conclusion is that the Ocean have up to 10 times more plastic and partially combusted carbon particles above 20 microns than marine life at the ocean surface.

60% of all marine life biomass is under 1mm in size and has a doubling time of just 3 days. If we stopped the pollution from lipophilic toxic chemicals, partially combusted carbon, and plastic, marine life would rebound super-fast.

80% of the world’s effluent and atmospheric pollution is discharged untreated, it is now causing 90%+ of all cancer and many other conditions. It would be much easier to clean up our oceans and atmosphere than to reduce carbon emissions.

We could have a clean, healthy world, with an ecosystem that could deal with carbon. This would be the real solution for our survival and climate change, but why is it being totally ignored ?

www.seahorsepoint.org Nature resilience Centre and www.Geoversity.org
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The use of toxic chemicals is an existential threat to humanity.


Without a ban on these hazardous chemicals, we risk killing all of nature, yet the EU has reversed their plan to ban 12,000 of these toxic forever chemicals due to industry pressure
https://lnkd.in/equFWqww

Unfortunately, the EU is also dropping the ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and sending thousands of tonnes to low-income countries. Even worse, the UK is allowing the use of these banned chemicals.

https://lnkd.in/ewYRQAMC
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We must take action now to protect the planet and our future.

3 million metric tonnes of pesticides are discharged into the environment every year. https://lnkd.in/eCCmwF5G

In 10 to 20 years, most insects (90% or more) on the planet will have been destroyed; this includes pollinators as well as soil biome insects. They are critical for our survival; terrestrial ecology will collapse as well as agriculture. The chemicals used by farmers are going to destroy our food supply. 385 million people fall ill every year from pesticide poisoning; these are mutagenic chemicals whose exposure causes cancer and, in some cases, DNA damage that could be passed down the generations. https://lnkd.in/evh7CpDp

I fail to understand why we continue to allow the use of toxic chemicals. Does the industry not know that it is poor business sense to kill your customers? Have they not heard of ecocide? Is the government so weak that it cannot stand up to industry? There is something very wrong here.

I call on the financial sector to get their act together and start exerting their influence over finance and insurance for polluting industries. The KPMG/MMIT study showed a decline until 2030, followed by a possible societal collapse by 2040.

We already know marine life is going to collapse between 2035 and 2045 due to ocean acidification, pollution, microplastics, and partially combusted carbon combined with toxic forever chemicals, and we know these chemicals become even more dispersed over land in rainfall. Terrestrial ecosystems will collapse at the same time. Every living organism on the planet contains toxic forever chemicals and molecular plastic, and its only going to get worse.,

The evidence is all there; how do we ban these chemicals? If this task cannot be achieved, then I cannot see a way forward for Nature and Humanity.

Actions and solution; www.GoesFoundation.com
Bioclimatic climate disruption;
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
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