Life is being sucked out of the planet……
Climate change is a self-fulfilling prophecy that encompasses the annihilation of nature. We will be able to survive climate change, but we will not be able to survive the loss of nature over the next 20 years. It is now time to implement real solutions and take action.
We know that if we had not destroyed more than 50% of the marine ecosystem, we would not have elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
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However, we continue to destroy the marine ecosystem, even in precious locations such as the Galapagos. 30 years ago, the marine ecosystem was in good condition, the shark fin industry moved in, and a high percentage of the apex-level predators were killed. We know that when you remove sharks, all animals and plants suffer. The same situation happened in Bocas del Toro in Panama, and now most of the fish have also gone. There are other reasons, such as pollution, but at least we should be able to stop destructive fishing.
The pelagic fishing industry and the quest for shark fin soup continue around the Galapagos, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama. Hundreds of foreign commercial fishing vessels are sucking the life out of the oceans; they are sucking the life out of the planet and any chance of a sustainable future.
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Watch what happens to countries around the Mediterranean Sea.
Countries around the Mediterranean are going to Cook, Flood, they will have Droughts and very high Wind velocities.
The model in the report is serious, but it doesn’t even take into account the that the Mediterranean has lost its SML layer, the surface micro layer of lipids produced by phytoplankton that regulate gas transfer across the surface of the sea and the atmosphere. This is important because the primary greenhouse gas is water vapour, and the SML regulates up to 50% of the atmospheric water vapour pressure.
What does this mean?
Atmospheric water vapour pressure will be higher, and loss of SML aerosols means fewer clouds. Higher water vapour pressure and fewer clouds to reflect energy means high temperatures, humid conditions and droughts.
Cloud seeding can be caused by dust, pollution or seawater spray. When this happens, energy release when water condenses will cause sudden very strong winds lasting maybe only 30 minutes. 200km+ winds. It also means that when it rains the downpours will be torrential.
Mediterranean countries are going to cook, there will be droughts, very strong short lived winds and torrential downpours. This is not just caused by climate change, it is caused by pollution and destruction of marine life.
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5 weeks that changed the world…
In 1835, at the age of twenty-six, Charles Darwin arrived in the Galapagos Islands, where he spent a mere five weeks and only seventeen days on land, gathering specimens and sketching them. Even though he published his findings 20 years after visiting the islands, he wasn’t the first to comprehend the principles of natural selection, but he was the first to publish in 1859.
The Origon of Species by means of Natural Selection
or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
With the exception of marine mammals, very few mammals can survive on the dry, nearly arid Galapagos Islands. Most of the terrestrial animals are birds and reptiles, including endemic marine iguanas and giant tortoises. The animals had to adapt to the slightly different conditions on each island due to the extreme difficulty of surviving. Darwin used finches, which are small birds that eat seeds, as an example. The birds’ beaks adapted to the seeds that the various plant species produced on different islands. There are numerous instances of adaptation, and as a species becomes more specialised, it eventually splits into subspecies and then distinct species.
Natural selection is currently taking place in the world, but unlike in the past, most of nature is unable to adapt to the current circumstances. This is because nature lacks the mechanisms necessary to deal with harmful substances and chemicals created by humans, like plastic and endocrine disruptors. Humanity is failing to preserve life, and nature is dying. Even if we stopped polluting right away, the majority of nature might not survive the next 20 years because of the current level of toxicity in the world.
There is no biological need for us to change our wicked ways because those who possess the wealth, power, and authority to bring about change are not suffering; this includes most people in high-income countries. The issue is that it will be too late to save the environment on land and the marine life in the oceans when those individuals or organisations with the power to effect change begin to suffer severely.
In essence, human survival and self-preservation are being harmed by natural selection because most do not think there is actually a problem. We have already lost 70% of nature since 1970 and 90% since 1900; over the next 20 years, it will be 90% and 99%, respectively. Humanity is part of nature; we cannot survive if it is destroyed.
There is still time to halt the process, restore biodiversity, and stop climate change, but first we must stop the devastation of ecosystems, overexploitation of the natural world, and pollution from toxic chemicals, plastic, and partially combusted carbon.
What will it take to change the world after almost 200 years since Darwin was in Galapagos?
bioclimatic climate change; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
www.goesfoundation.com
Darwin research station, Santa Cruz, Galapagos
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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!
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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.
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
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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.
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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
What’s more important, climate disruption or sustainable living…?
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.
Why don’t we fix climate change …. It is in our power?
The focus of climate change has and will likely continue to be carbon mitigation; however, we know that this will not work. The climate will continue to become progressively more extreme, and at best, carbon mitigation will delay the inevitable (point of no return) a few years to 2050. https://lnkd.in/eiC9kgDu
While carbon dioxide is part of the problem, it will not stop the process, which is increasing exponentially. Be under no illusion; this is an extinction-level event that is being ignored because human nature fails to engage with the fact that we are part of nature and cannot survive on this world without nature on land, and marine life in the world’s oceans. This is partially due to Shifting BaseLine Syndrome, SBS https://lnkd.in/eiC9kgDu .
We look at a world that appears full of life, but according to WWF and others, we have lost 50% to 80% of all nature on land and marine life since 1970, and about 90% since 1900. In another 20 years, the figure will be 90% to 99%, respectively. It will not be possible for most of us to survive, and bioclimatic aspects will cause catastrophic climate change. SBS syndrome and generational amnesia will drive us into extinction and planetary meltdown.
Sure, we must continue with carbon mitigation, but carbon tunnel vision is even more dangerous. We need to be nature-centric, to stop destroying ecosystems, and to start doing some good, because we are way past the point of just doing less harm as a solution. So, what can be done….? There is too much to explain in this post, but 80% of the world has no wastewater or atmospheric pollution control, we need to eliminate / prevent toxic forever chemicals, plastic, and partially combusted carbon from entering the wider ecosystem, and we need to be nature-positive and start to repair the catastrophic damage humanity has inflicted on nature.
We are part of nature and will suffer the same consequences when it is destroyed.
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