Time To Refocus The C02 Battle
By Allan St Denis
09 December, 2009
Countercurrents.org
It is clear that the battle to reduce C02 is turning out to be one of the toughest battles ever. For those of us that believe increasing CO2 is the most life threatening gas ever, it seems to be a never ending battle. The efforts of the denial industry are relentless and are backed by the fossil fuel industry, in order to keep the spin and the lies going. There goal is to maintain the status quo.
As someone had commented on one site “I suspect the global climate change debate may evolve into an intractable stalemate, a marathon of trench warfare with science on one side, and people who have flipped their self-deception anxiety reduction switches on the other.”
I believe it is time to change the focus of how increasing CO2 will impact the climate of the future. We have an equally catastrophic event playing itself out on the other two thirds of the planet.
The world’s oceans are being impacted from our CO2 emissions. It is a crisis that has had little media exposure. The oceans absorb approximately 30% of our CO2 and the severity of that, are just now being realize by scientist. The CO2 being absorb by the oceans is changing the PH to acid and that will have catastrophic impacts on the ecosystem of the oceans. This will directly affect coral reefs and sea-shelled creatures in that they will at some point will no longer be able to form and would eventually disintegrate. The impact could be the eventual collapse of most of the oceans ecosystem. The problem is dire.
In the documentary ACID TEST which can viewed here
( http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/acidification/aboutthefilm.asp )
The consequences are clearly explained. This is something that is real and non debatable. This is not part of a cycle. Scientists say that this has not happened since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. We are spewing out CO2 faster than the oceans can deal with it and will eventually lead to the world oceans turning into a large acid pond. It is time to turn this CO2 debate into a double debate. Obviously the planet cannot handle more CO2 and maintain its present state.
The question we need ask the world is "Are we willing to let the oceans die in order that we may continue using fossil fuels".
If this is not reason enough for people to get off fossil fuels then it is time to educate people about peak oil and the impacts it will have on their lifestyle. It would give people even more reason to move towards alternative energies.
We must use all the cards at our disposal to move people away from fossil fuels.The deniers are using anything they can to create doubt to confuse people. It is time to present to people all the reasons why we need to move away from the status quo. Focusing on one thing is allowing the deniers to control the debate, because all they have to do is continue to create doubt.
If we loose this battle, it could mean the end of this civilization and the eventual end to the habitability of this planet.
It is time to start fighting like our lives depend on it.
