We all have some of OCEAN DUST inside our bodies.

We all have some of OCEAN DUST inside our bodiDiatoms are one of the most important marine plants that give us around 20% of all our oxygen and remove the same amount of carbon dioxide. Because they are made of silica, their skeletons survive inside us all. We are all made of ocean dust….

This demonstrates that we are all connected to the oceans, when we breathe in air, we are breathing in marine plants in every breath.

Due to ocean acidification, diatoms and carbonate based marine plants are going to change to plants call dinoflagellates, and many of them are toxic. This will happen over the next 25 years.

Will the air we breath become toxic ? check-out red-tides

We need to protect ocean ecosystems, because they represent our greatest carbon sink, and all life on earth depends upon the oceans.

We need to stop the pollution from toxic chemicals and plastic, regenerate nature, and nature will help remove the carbon.

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Marine plankton, ocean drifters, are amazing.

The photograph is of a siphonophore, there are species of this marine plankton longer than a Blue Whale. All life on earth depends on plankton,, ranging from the longest animals on the planet to the smallest. Plants are also critically important, such as the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus that was only discovered in 1985, yet it provides 20% of our oxygen and sequesters 20% of our carbon.

We know almost nothing about the Oceans that cover 71% of the planet, yet we continue to dump toxic chemicals in to the oceans. 80% of the world has no effluent treatment and have the mistaken belief that the solution to pollution is dilution. Well this doesn’t work for nutrients such as phosphate and nitrates and lipid soluble toxic for ever chemicals that just float on the surface and get absorbed and concentrated on microplastic and partially combusted carbon.

The oceans are dying….. we have maybe 20 years before there is a trophic cascade collapse of the entire marine ecosystem, after which it really doesn’t matter what we do to the environment and the planets life support system.

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the GOES report https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
#environment #marine #lifesupport

Copepods, the most important animal on the planet

5 gigatons of these 1mm-sized zooplankton called COPEPODS live in all the world’s Oceans. This is equivalent to 17 million 747 jets, and if you laid the jets end to end, they would go around the planet 31 times.

The copepods migrate from around 200m below the ocean surface every night to feed on plants (phytoplankton) at the surface. It is the greatest mass migration of animals on the planet, and it happens twice a day. The vertical motion of the copepods moves just about as much water as the moon and the tides.

The copepods eat 30 times more carbon than humanity generates from burning fossil fuels, and about 6%, or 3 gigatons, of their dead bodies and poop end up in the world’s largest carbon bank, the Abyss. The Abyss contains 500m to 1000’s of meters thick layer of organic carbon / mineral sludge https://lnkd.in/evWBxYNh with an area greater area than dry land on the planet. https://lnkd.in/ezqwate4

Yet humanity has wiped out more than 50% of marine plankton productivity over the last 70 years due to chemical and particle pollution. We have also wiped out 50% of Arctic krill, which are just as important. https://lnkd.in/e9fn5TCr and we are now even contemplating dredging the ocean floor!

We would not have had climate change if we had not poisoned and destroyed most of the world’s oceans.

By 2045, the destruction will be complete unless we act now to stop the inevitable annihilation of nature and life on Earth. Let’s put things into perspective, in comparison to protecting nature, carbon mitigation, windmills and electric cars are almost a joke.

Copepods churn the oceans; https://lnkd.in/eqHn5cRd

Bioclimatic climate change: this report provides what we consider to be the most accurate mechanism for climate disruption, and it’s not carbon dioxide; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

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