GOES Foundation project to save the oceans

Don’t look up…. you need to look down to save the planet Just watched this film on Netflix, a parody on climate change, very well done. https://lnkd.in/dRXe4U4k I delivered a presentation at COP26 https://lnkd.in/g-axggNz Climate change has all been about carbon mitigation, about Net Zero… But the truth is…it’s not going to work. Even if we achieve net zero by the end of this decade, which is impossible, atmospheric CO2 will still pass 500ppm, ocean pH will drop below pH7.95 and most marine life will dissolve. A trophic cascade collapse will follow, the entire marine ecosystem will fall apart and along with it the life support system for the planet. This will happen in 25 years, according to peer reviewed reports from the IPCC, as detailed in our literature review. https://lnkd.in/gYqs8VD Humanity cannot survive without Nature, and most of it will be gone in the oceans in 25 years. What’s the point of achieving net zero if we ignore Nature? Sure, there are plans afoot to solve climate change, 2 of them were as follows 1.     50% of the Chemistry department of one of the leading universities in the USA want to cover most of the ocean with shellfish farms and use a solar furnace to turn the shells into carbon dioxide so they can make fuel. I spent several days debating with their lead research scientists why this would be completely stupid. 2.    A second project which may be financed to the sum of 22 million pounds was to test the feasibility of covering 50% of the oceans with solar collectors to pump the light 200m under water to grow algae. This project was led by the brother of someone at a high level in the UK Government. They didn’t understand anything of the biology of the process. If the above is an example of what world leading universities and governments are doing, then we have no chance. There is not going to be a magic bullet, we cannot solve climate change, but we can stop polluting the atmosphere, soil and water, and let nature and marine life prevent the destruction of the oceans. We will have to live with climate change of probably +3 deg C, it will be catastrophic, but if we eliminate pollution over the next 10 years, then we may actually have future. Without nature, mainly marine life we can not survive, and in 25 years most of it will be dead unless we act now to stop toxic chemical and plastic pollution. We need to "Look Down" to the soil bacteria, insects and fungi growing underground and to all the plants and animals in deep ocean.

The oceans are the life support system for the planet, they control our atmosphere, provide food for 3 billion people and they regulate our climate.  Yet we continue to pollute the oceans with toxic chemicals and micro-plastic, and th issues isnt even going to be on the agenda for COP26