We Did This: We Must Get It Right The First Time Around
We Will Die Of Old Age So Let’s Give Our Children The Same Birth Right We Were Born With
Growing Studies have estimated that there are now 15–51 trillion pieces of plastic in the oceans of the world. From the equator to the poles, from the Arctic ice sheets to the ocean floor. Not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere on earth is free of plastic pollution. At least 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year and make up 80% of all marine debris from surface water to deep-sea sediments. This problem is turning into a crisis.
It is a big huge problem in my eyes because it’s not just bad for the ocean it’s bad for all marine life. Marine plastic pollution has affected 100% of marine turtles, 59% of whales, 36% of seals, and 40% of seabirds of those that have been examined. Over 1 Million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed by ocean plastic every year. There are 700 species of marine life that are in danger of going extinct due to plastic. It’s so sad to live in a world where people just don’t care about our oceans, marine life, and our planet in general. People are so selfish, so selfish that they don’t realize that they are ruining not only their children’s future but their children’s children and future generations.
I have changed my diet and I currently eat more organic foods that are produced locally because it’s way better for my health. It has also been estimated that 13 percent of our greenhouse emissions result from the production and transport of food. I cut beef and dairy out of my diet completely, the reason for doing so was because it takes a lot of resources to raise cows, and its especially bad to buy bad meat from somewhere like Brazil, where it was grazed on land that used to be a tropical forest but was cleared for agricultural use. Deforestation is a top contributor to carbon emissions and thus climate change. I do not eat fish due to all the dumping of plastic, and it is due to all chemicals are being put into our waters from the microplastic and contaminating our marine life who also eat other fish, it starts with the bottom feeders and works up the marine life food chain. Our cows burp methane and methane is a lot worse than carbon dioxide going into our atmosphere warming the earth. Believe it or not, we humans put out a small amount of methane when we fart. Eating meat contributes to it more than not eating it. There are a lot of humans on this earth. But we are not the problem in that way. We are the problem in worse ways than that.
Researchers have found high microplastic concentrations found on sea floors. An analysis, led by the University of Manchester found 1.9 million plastic pieces per square meter. The Researcher’s investigations led them to believe that microplastic (smaller than 1mm) being concentrated in specific locations on the ocean floor by powerful bottom currents. These currents build what are called drift deposits; think of underwater sand dunes that can be tens of kilometers long and hundreds of meters high. They are among the largest sediment accumulations on earth. They’re made predominantly of very fine silt. So it’s intuitive to expect microplastic will be found within them. We have totally ruined our oceans system. Now the undercurrents all have microplastic flowing within them which delivers them all around the world’s oceans.
Our earth is crying out to us and now many are listening neither do they care. It’s such a shame. The only home we know and we are killing it. Nasa and Elon Musk are more worried about getting people to mars than worry about the only planet which we know to sustain life for us humans. Elon musk has done one thing right and that is when he decided to create the Tesla car, there all-electric, and now he’s working on 18 wheeler trucks that will be all-electric. Amazon said by 2040 all vehicles will be electric. Taxi company’s in NYC are buying Tesla cars for their company, all car companies are going electric. Soon there will be charge stations instead of gas stations. Cars can now Drive much farther being electric than they use to. I pray that we get things done in time.
Our CO2 emissions will go up if we don’t start using operational carbon to build our buildings, all the cities around the world are built using embodied carbon. Our use of embodied carbon to build all our buildings, embodied carbon is locked in as soon as a building is complete. Buildings contribute 40 percent of our carbon emissions in the world. Architects have to change how they build our buildings to lower carbon emissions. If they do not we are in big trouble. Our earth will then keep warming and our future generations will live on an earth that we never saw before, and it will be so hot, with heat waves that no one on earth has ever experienced before, And weather like nothing we never experienced.
Operational carbon is when emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases during the in-use operation of a building. It’s basically saying that we should use less carbon-based ways when it comes to building our cities in every aspect starting from the transportation of the materials to what materials we use in itself and using new energy-efficient building designs. To address global warming, 195 countries met in Paris in 2015, They pledged to keep the world’s average surface temperature from exceeding 1,5 celsius and the next 10 years to achieve this goal.
According to the Oceanic and atmosphere administration, since the start of the Industrial Revolution in about 1750, the levels of CO2 in our atmospheric levels have risen steadily, causing the earth’s temperature to increase at an unusually rapid rate, mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. Our CO2 levels in our atmosphere have risen 69 percent from about 250 parts per million in the 1750s to 4o7 ppm in 2018. It has quickly increased over 2 1/2 centuries. It is us humans that is creating this disease on our planet. It’s crying out to us for help. As a consequence, our temperature has risen, during the 1750s it was 0.07 since then it has risen to 0.98 in 2019. Leading to 19 out of 20 warmest years on record. All of which occurred in the past couple of decades.
At this time our world is at about 1-degree Celsius, above preindustrial levels. If we don’t stick to our plan, and I’m talking about the Paris Agreement then our future generations will feel the effects of the climbing temperatures. It will reach 2 degrees Celcius above preindustrial levels, then the Mediterranean basin is projected to experience widespread desertification, coral reefs may almost entirely disappear and Ice sheets will begin to collapse. After that then the world will become what scientists dub a “hothouse earth”.
I will reduce my carbon footprint in many ways. I will reuse all plastic containers that I currently have and put some household items in them. I currently use the new laundry detergent that comes in a cardboard box. It works and cleans my clothes the same and actually smells pretty good. I go to home depot to buy big paper leave bags and use them as my garbage bags. I bring my own bags to the grocery store even though they are banned in NYS and now have to use paper bags. I even use my pocketbook sometimes if I’m only buying a few things. I even own an EGO, it’s an electric lawnmower, it’s the Power Plus 21+that is so awesome and some unbelievable things that you can do with it, it even has self-propelled technology. I hope to get an electric car one day. Anything to help the environment, and I will continue to do so for the rest of my life.
“It’s The Only Way To Save Their Way Of Life, So We Better Think Way More Then Twice!”
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The global average surface temperature has risen from 0.07 to 0.98 degrees celsius from 1900–2018
