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The Ocean:
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. 💔
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. 💔
It's no exaggeration to say that the killing of the Oceans during this extreme phase of corporate capitalism is happening at terrifying speed.
Extinction now looms for much ocean life.
This destruction also threatens the lives of billions of humans.
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Extinction now looms for much ocean life.
This destruction also threatens the lives of billions of humans.
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Emergency, internationally coordinated action on an unprecedented scale is now the only way to respond to this multi-faceted conundrum, to protect 1) the oceans and 2) those unjustly impoverished by colonial systems of climate violence a.k.a corporate globalisation.
Details:👇
Details:👇
Polluted:
🔺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…
🔺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…
Overfished:
'the so-called rise of human civilization has destroyed...80% of marine animals' ⚠️
See threads👇:
'the so-called rise of human civilization has destroyed...80% of marine animals' ⚠️
See threads👇:
Suffocated:
🔺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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🔺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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Acidified:
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👇:
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👇:
Bulldozed:
The destruction of marine ecosystems...
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The destruction of marine ecosystems...
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Intoxicated:
'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-…
'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-…
Plasticked:
🔺'the annual amount of plastic waste tumbling out to sea will more than double' by 2025.
Thread👇
🔺Plastic is killing the oceans. Thread👇
🔺Seabirds are starving to death👇
🔺'the annual amount of plastic waste tumbling out to sea will more than double' by 2025.
Thread👇
🔺Plastic is killing the oceans. Thread👇
🔺Seabirds are starving to death👇
Deafened:
“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…
“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…
Expanded:
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…
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…
Cooked:
🔥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…
🔥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…
