In addition to climate change, there are other dynamics that increase its seriousness, such as intensive breeding, the continuous increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, the lack of interest in the use of cutting-edge renewable energies suitable for the territory. Eco-sustainability is not taken into consideration by humanity's life model.
Misinformation will lead humanity and his planet to ruin.
"Peace doesn't mean we won't have more problems. Problems will always accompany us. Peace means changing the way we see problems and how we solve them." Dalai lama
Historically, the oceans have always had a basic pH of about 8.2. Due to the increase in CO2 emissions, their pH is decreasing. Since pH is a logarithmic scale, for every unit of pH lost, the oceans get 10 times warmer.
Why are the oceans turning acidic?
The oceans absorb about a third of all human CO2 emissions. CO2 reacts with water and creates carbonic acid. More CO2 equals more acidity.
Implication of a more acidic ocean
Decline in coral and shellfish formation: carbonic acid from CO2 emissions competes with corals and molluscs for carbonate, a compound needed to form skeletons and shells. Here the consequent bleaching of the lively color of the corals, becoming white. Corals and molluscs are essential parts of the ocean ecosystem and their suffering reflects on the creatures that depend on them. Other marine life can also be affected, as phenomena such as respiration, calcification, photosynthesis and reproduction are sensitive to pH changes.
In 1798, the English economist Thomas Malthus asked himself: how many humans can the Earth support?
Scientists say the maximum load the Earth can support is 10 billion humans. According to estimates, this number will be reached by 2050.
Population growth has led and will lead to higher carbon emissions, which threaten the quality of life on Earth.
Throughout the world, in the course of a lifetime, each man on average produces about 4 tons of carbon dioxide.
Lifestyles contribute significantly to carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Consumption rates vary from country to country. Nature researchers have calculated that each new release of 4522 cubic meters of CO2 into the atmosphere (above the 2020 emission rate) causes premature death due to the increase in temperature.
To better put this figure into context, the lifetime emissions of 3.5 average US citizens are enough to materially shorten another person's life. By comparison, it would take 25 Brazilians or 146 Nigerians to achieve the same effect.
The melting of glaciers is increasingly rapid and is not just a strange phenomenon that occurs in a remote region of our planet; in fact, it considerably reduces the amount of solar radiation reflected back into space, which passes from 60 to 10%, further accelerating the process of warming our planet. Frozen sediments, which have lain buried undisturbed since the last ice age, are now releasing plumes of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
The world's largest ice sheet outside Antarctica has created what scientists call the "cold blob" in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The cold blob is considered both a symptom and a cause of the Gulf Stream slowdown, which is also affecting the climate.
Scientists attribute changes in water surface temperature and humidity to consequences of the cold blob, particularly cold winters and droughts. Geological records show that the latest abrupt change in the Southern Atlantic Circulation (AMOC) caused severe droughts in North Africa and returned Atlantic coastal regions to Ice Age temperatures for a thousand years.
Exhaustion of land and soil.
It is the loss of the physical, chemical and biological qualities that favor life. More than 75% of the planet's land is impoverished.
Soil degradation can be caused by:
Intensive agricultural activities
Pasture
Deforestation
Urbanization
Today, 3.2 billion people have somehow experienced the consequences of land consumption. This has led to a decrease, often accompanied by an increase in migration.
Currently farms lose 10 to 15% of their crop to pests or disease.
The dark soil below us contains at least a quarter of all global biodiversity and is essential for ensuring safe drinking water. A teaspoon of soil contains billions of microorganisms. It is estimated that the earth's soil contains three times as much carbon as the atmosphere.
The importance of soil
95% of the world's food supply depends on the soil, which is the difference between life and death for many living things. A climate warming of 2°C means a dispersion of 230 billion tons of CO2 from the soil, which could drag the earth towards irreversible climate change.
Livestock farms occupy 33% of the available agricultural surfaces in the world.
Chicken is the most commonly found bird in the world on our tables. They are grown indoors, in large sheds, driven to feed day and night, thanks to artificial light, and even deprived of the possibility of opening their wings. Formed in a few months of life, the chicken brings with it all the infernal suffering of their short existence, together with the residues of the antibiotics and constant medicines used to prevent them from dying. But some investigations have shown other no less disturbing aspects. The chickens are not only genetically manipulated to become bigger and with meatier breasts, but in some factories they are fed, as well as with the aid of antibiotics, which also contribute to their weight gain, with small doses of arsenic <which promotes growth, because it inhibits the presence in the intestine of Coccidioides immitis, a dangerous fungus>.
Inside the factory, the chickens are hung upside down, hooked by their feet, onto a rail system that carries them throughout the factory. They are quartered and immediately after being chopped up, they are immersed in a chlorine bath to be sterilized and transformed into food to be sent to supermarkets.
In areas where there are chicken sheds, or even worse pigsties, it is statistically proven that children will encounter a greater probability of developing respiratory diseases, asthma, eczema, skin rashes, compared to other peers born in areas without farms.
The queen of waste is beef, which of all requires the greatest sacrifice of water, soil and energy before being consumed at the table. In fact, every time a person devours a hamburger, they consume the resources with which five to nine people could eat.
Today, two thirds of the world's crops end up as food for animals, which in turn become food, such as meat, eggs, milk and derivatives. But not for everyone, and not in the same way.
Where does all the carbon go?
For millions of years the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has fluctuated in a cyclical pace. As the level of carbon dioxide rose, plants and oceans absorbed more. When the level decreased, the opposite happened. This pace changed two hundred years ago, with the advent of the industrial age.
Humans now produce about 34 billion tons of carbon each year, a number that has increased exponentially in recent decades. Over a third ends up in the atmosphere. The current concentration is 412 parts per million (ppm), up from 300 a few generations ago. Over the past sixty years, carbon dioxide has increased 100 times faster than it did naturally before. Prehistoric rises and falls occurred regularly due to natural factors. However, the production of carbon dioxide resulting from human activities has increased exponentially.
Plants and oceans absorb most of the carbon emitted by humans, but not all!
About 25% of carbon is taken up by the oceans, usually through the atmosphere.
Plants and soil currently absorb an additional 30% of the carbon dioxide produced.
In this way 45% of the carbon produced is not absorbed. leaving a gap that is leading to an alteration in the composition of the atmosphere and a change in climate.
