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I'm paranoid that Earth will run out of oxygen.....

Braznor

Braznor

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Is there a way I can always carry a permanent supply of oxygen with me so that when people begin to drop dead I can stay calm and carry on?
 
We probably have a couple decades before it's a real issue, hopefully by then world leaders take pollution and climate change more seriously. Danger is we are near the tipping point where it's irreversible. The oceans are running out of oxygen fast.
 
Most of our air come from phytoplankton. So, as long as they don't die from overheating ocea...

www.theguardian.com

Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates

Oceans are clearest measure of climate crisis as they absorb 90% of heat trapped by greenhouse gases
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

... FUUUUUUUCK!!

Excuse me, please.
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It's not paranoia, it's common sense. Growing population and shrinking rain forest, we're doomed.

Here's what to do. Find a cave and seal yourself in nice and tight. I mean TIGHT. Make it so that not a single molecule of air can get in or out. Then you can live safely forever, no matter what we do to our air supply out here, you'll have your own. Hurry up, I can feel the air getting thinner already.
 
Red Squirrel said:
We probably have a couple decades before it's a real issue, hopefully by then world leaders take pollution and climate change more seriously. Danger is we are near the tipping point where it's irreversible. The oceans are running out of oxygen fast.
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Plants primary source of mass is CO2. Trees and grasslands are growing between 20 and 40% faster than anticipated.

CO2 production isn't going to somehow magically make trees die off and the vast majority of the civilized world is smart enough to replant trees that they use for pulpwood.

There are more trees in the south than there were 200 years ago, probably ever, because of paper mills.
 
ShookKnight said:
Most of our air come from phytoplankton. So, as long as they don't die from overheating ocea...

www.theguardian.com

Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates

Oceans are clearest measure of climate crisis as they absorb 90% of heat trapped by greenhouse gases
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

... FUUUUUUUCK!!

Excuse me, please.
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This is the scary thing that is going mostly ignored. People talk about how we can just plant more trees, but it's not enough. The plankton is actually a good chunk of what is responsible for making oxygen and most of it is dying off.
 
Red Squirrel said:
This is the scary thing that is going mostly ignored. People talk about how we can just plant more trees, but it's not enough. The plankton is actually a good chunk of what is responsible for making oxygen and most of it is dying off.
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solar desalination + electrolysis. You counter ocean desalination due to ice melt at the same time.
 
I've heard stories of a switch somewhere, hidden in some remote mountainous underwater cave that, when flipped, immediately cuts off all of the Earth's supply of oxygen.

This is why the government doesn't want to halt climate change - if the sea levels continue to rise, the switch will be more difficult to access. You can imagine what might happen if the wrong people found it.
 
snoopy7548 said:
I've heard stories of a switch somewhere, hidden in some remote mountainous underwater cave that, when flipped, immediately cuts off all of the Earth's supply of oxygen.

This is why the government doesn't want to halt climate change - if the sea levels continue to rise, the switch will be more difficult to access. You can imagine what might happen if the wrong people found it.
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It's on Mars and it is to release frozen oxygen. Keep your memory straight!
 
You could always switch to carbon monoxide; it uses 50% less oxygen than molecular oxygen and sequesters carbon at the same time.
 
0ldman79 said:
Plants primary source of mass is CO2. Trees and grasslands are growing between 20 and 40% faster than anticipated.

CO2 production isn't going to somehow magically make trees die off and the vast majority of the civilized world is smart enough to replant trees that they use for pulpwood.

There are more trees in the south than there were 200 years ago, probably ever, because of paper mills.
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More trees but not as big of trees. 100 tiny trees doesn't equal one bad ass ancient one.
 
Wait, I always thought smaller trees were more efficient? So we are doomed either way as old growth forests keep getting cut down. Either way with the amount of CO2 we are pumping into the atmosphere even if we covered all land with trees it would not be enough.

I think it's inevitable that at one point we will all have to live in air tight buildings built like a space station with oxygen systems kinda like the ISS. I just hope I will be dead by the time it gets that bad, but I think the next few decades will be rough if nothing changes in how the world operates. The world has a couple years to make drastic changes before we hit a run away point and I doubt those changes will happen. Climate change deniers and world leaders keep saying all the predictions done over the past decades urging changes are wrong and that everything is fine, but it's not.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wait, I always thought smaller trees were more efficient? So we are doomed either way as old growth forests keep getting cut down. Either way with the amount of CO2 we are pumping into the atmosphere even if we covered all land with trees it would not be enough.

I think it's inevitable that at one point we will all have to live in air tight buildings built like a space station with oxygen systems kinda like the ISS. I just hope I will be dead by the time it gets that bad, but I think the next few decades will be rough if nothing changes in how the world operates. The world has a couple years to make drastic changes before we hit a run away point and I doubt those changes will happen. Climate change deniers and world leaders keep saying all the predictions done over the past decades urging changes are wrong and that everything is fine, but it's not.
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I should have prefaced what I said with the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to biology. I'm more of a physics/astronomy guy.

I'm less worried about climate change and more worried about the massive plastic, heavy metals and garbage dumping we do on top of how fast we are eliminating our wildernesses. Whenever I get into the wilderness and away from people I realize how we have just completely fucked everything up.
 
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