1. Polluted
2. Overfished
3. Suffocated
4. Acidified
5. Bulldozed
6. Intoxicated
7. Plasticked
8. Deafened
9. Expanded
10. Cooked
The planet you think you're living on no longer exists. 💔
Extinction now looms for much ocean life.
This destruction also threatens the lives of billions of humans.
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Details:👇
🔺Toxic chemicals (organic compounds, DDT, PCB, metals, pharmaceuticals, gas)
🔺Solid waste
🔺Nutrient (nitrates, phosphates) & sediment inputs (industry, agriculture, deforestation, sewage)
🔺Radioactivity
🔺Oil spills
🔺Discarded fishing nets
sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-a…
🔺Ocean dead zones with zero oxygen have quadrupled in size since 1950
🔺number of very low oxygen sites near coasts have multiplied × 10
🔺sea creatures can't survive
🔺current trends would lead to mass extinction
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Estimates of future CO2 levels, based on business as usual emission scenarios, would result in a pH that the oceans haven’t experienced for more than 20 million years.⚠️
pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What…
Thread:👇
Article👇:
'Staggering'
'Massive implications'
'High concentrations of CO2 cause fish to become intoxicated -- a phenomenon known as hypercapnia...the fish become lost at sea. The carbon dioxide affects their brains and..'
sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/…
qz.com/611794/rising-…
“Why this isn’t front-page news around the world?... the military is being given a pass [to harm] marine life with sonar and explosives.”
Huge impacts:
nytimes.com/2019/01/22/sci…
blasts are deafening to animals underwater:
news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/seismi…
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Sea level is rising at an increasing rate.
Two major causes of global sea level rise:
thermal expansion caused by warming of the ocean
melting of land-based ice
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel…
When water heats up, it expands:
abc.net.au/news/science/2…
🔥Climate Breakdown is cooking the oceans. 2°C = catastrophe
earther.gizmodo.com/climate-change…
⚠️Coral reefs will soon all be dead, wiped out when global average temperature rise goes over 2°C in the coming decades:
The Barrier Reef:inhabitat.com/rising-ocean-t…