Planetary Suicide
One of the Greatest Crimes of our Generation
The United States with 4% of the world’s population is contributing to the collapse of our entire planet’s ecosystem - with 13% of the global carbon dioxide emissions.
Coral is the nursery for fish. Coral is dying because of warming oceans. We are warming the planet faster than it can adapt. People will starve.
”As the largest traded food commodity in the world, seafood provides sustenance to billions of people worldwide. More than 3 billion people in the world rely on wild-caught and farmed seafood as a significant source of animal protein.” WWF
Our world is burning. Our oceans are dying. We are killing our food systems. We are committing global suicide.
But the “King” wants to expand fossil fuel use - to bring back coal. To “drill baby, drill”. Doesn’t that sound like a crime against humanity, a crime against the planet?
Please watch this two minute video: (sorry about the ad at the beginning :)
Coral reefs are as important as rain forests.
“More than 50% of all species on Earth are found under the ocean. Scientists at NOAA estimate that the ocean produces 50-80% of the world’s oxygen and absorbs 50 times more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere. The ocean helps sustain human life.”
“Coral reefs are structures created by coral animals and are among the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet. They provide goods and services worth at least US$11.9 trillion per year and support (through such activities as fisheries and tourism) at least 500 million people worldwide.”
Learn more here:
Of all the obscenities perpetrated by the MAGA maniacs, this competes to be the most dramatic and horrible. When coral dies, fish populations shrink or vanish. People suffer for lack of protein. But so do all manner of birds, fish and other aquatic life. The food chain is disrupted - destroyed. The US has been complicit along with most of the world. This issue is established science. It is not a matter of opinion.
Now our government led by a “mad king” wants to make it much worse. These are the actions of the criminally insane.
https://www.onecoralreef.org/
World Wildlife Fund
Please don’t forget Ukraine…
Bill,
"This issue is established science. It is not a matter of opinion."
Correct, the US has long been, especially per capita, the largest emitter of CO and CO2 and NO2. It is equally true that at the individual level, the vast majority of Americans are aware of the issue but, just do not care at all. Not....at.....all.
Just in the last 5 years, with full knowledge of global warming and its cause, a huge fraction of Americans, whether or not they ever haul any hay or lumber, have rushed out to purchase an $85,000 Ford F150 Super Cab with a 10 cylinder engine. Then, they have paid extra to cover the bed of said truck, rather than packing it full of hay or tools or any of the stuff we used our truck for on our old farm.
Then, they have put a loud exhaust on the truck and make sure to leave every stop light with their foot all the way to the floor to ensure maximum gas burn.
So, while it is true that Trump appears to be in a rush for mass human extinction, the vast majority of Americans are on board with that strategy. I mean, the vast majority Bill.
Trump and his head in the sand approach is WIDELY shared by Americans.
We travel to Greece intermittently and the size of the cars in Greece is about 1/7 of Ford F150 and those cars get about 50-60 mpg. The only trucks farmers use are these tiny, tiny Toyota Trucks about 1/5 the size of a Ford F150.
As long as Americans just don't care, or, worse, wish to rush us lemmings over the cliff with millions of Ford F150 super cabs with 10 cylinder engines?
We just have to get used to the fact that humans will, in the not so ever distant future, will be one more extinct species along with Saber Tooth Tigers and thousands of past life forms.
Earth? Will not care. It will still rotate. A billion years from now, maybe some newly evolved species will discover some gigantic junkyard filled with Ford F150 super cabs and wonder how they got there?
What species generated so much junk?
Well done Bill. Fortunately, there is a fair amount that we can do despite the babblings and performative acts of the pseudo-President. Every time we walk somewhere instead of driving, pick up a piece of recyclable material and see it disposed of properly, use a reusable grocery bag or storage container, install a solar or wind generation system at home or our business, or take any of the myriad other simple and available actions we know about, we strike a blow for the coral, the planet, ourselves and each other, and that is how and why we'll succeed as long as we make that choice. Trump can only last so long, and it is increasingly clear that legacy industry in all fields, but especially the fossil fuel and generation sector, see him as the last best hope of maintaining their destructive approach to life. There is no doubt about the benefits we've derived from petrochemicals, but like everything else, their day is passing and we all need to prepare for what's coming next, whatever that turns out to be.