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A small village near a lake in Cameroon experienced an anomaly in 1986. Lake Nycos unexpectedly emitted a gigantic burst of C02. This killed pretty much the entire village of 1,700 to 1,800 people. It happened suddenly and without warning. One moment everything was fine and then nobody could breathe. Death came quickly.
Our entire planet has huge concentrations of C02 in the oceans — everywhere. The industrial use (I would say abuse) of fossil fuels has loaded up the deadly gas in the upper atmosphere, while gigatons have also been absorbed by the oceans. The oceans are now so full of C02, that the C02 is venting from them. At the moment, it’s not at the level of what happened in Cameroon in 1986. Should we just keep dumping C02 into the biosphere and see what happens?
My recommendation — and the recommendation of climate scientists — is that we stop playing Russian roulette with the Earth.
A Breath of Fresh Air
As far as we can tell, the climate crisis won’t directly suffocate us. But more and more of us will die from it and, of course, stop breathing. Also, aquatic life IS suffocating.
On the other hand, global warming is killing huge numbers of plankton, and they produce 2/3 of the Earth’s atmospheric oxygen. So, who really knows what we…
