The... unusual 15 percent since the mid-20th century... correlates directly to anthropogenic activities - due to "escalating" waterborne and airborne carbon emissions this past century (Duh!)... Nature is collapsing because of Humanity - 51% Flora & 83% Fauna has already been destroyed without recourse and "15%+" Ocean is dead (and historically doubling by the decade). Marine disposal of oxygen-deficient "waste" waters globally by all manner of outfall directly depletes marine oxygen with consequential uptake of CO2, resulting in shifting nutrient and carbon cycles with expanding ocean acidification emanating from urban coastal centres worldwide. In summary, we take water & resources from the land only to waste it all to ocean and atmosphere - damaging all manner of natural ecosystems (from which we evolved) that was stable for millions of years yet we are throwing all to waste in less than 100-years. We must end ignorance, selfishness and stop pollution if we are to alleviate the effects of runaway climate change. Otherwise just like Cancer, Humanity will continue to take until all that is living is dead. The only smarts required are to "stop" that which is morally, sensibly and ethically wrong, and address our apparent disrespect for Mother Nature.
Published by Yuri Obst, Founder & Acting CEO at Baleen Filters Pty Limited
The... unusual 15 percent since the mid-20th century... correlates directly to anthropogenic activities - due to "escalating" waterborne and airborne carbon emissions this past century (Duh!)...
Nature is collapsing because of Humanity - 51% Flora & 83% Fauna has already been destroyed without recourse and "15%+" Ocean is dead (and historically doubling by the decade).
Marine disposal of oxygen-deficient "waste" waters globally by all manner of outfall directly depletes marine oxygen with consequential uptake of CO2, resulting in shifting nutrient and carbon cycles with expanding ocean acidification emanating from urban coastal centres worldwide.
In summary, we take water & resources from the land only to waste it all to ocean and atmosphere - damaging all manner of natural ecosystems (from which we evolved) that was stable for millions of years yet we are throwing all to waste in less than 100-years.
We must end ignorance, selfishness and stop pollution if we are to alleviate the effects of runaway climate change. Otherwise just like Cancer, Humanity will continue to take until all that is living is dead.
The only smarts required are to "stop" that which is morally, sensibly and ethically wrong, and address our apparent disrespect for Mother Nature.