Climate change: what is ocean acidification?

[@johnservedio3359]

We need more of these videos. Insight into a world a lot of us don't know.

[@sixtusnwaohiri7078]

Climate change is very informative. The world is unaware that the acids and carbon in the ocean destroy aquatic life, which has an impact on the food chain. We need to hear more stories like this. Bravo for this video's superb reporting.

[@snow11wolf]

The lower the pH value, the higher the acidity of a liquid. Solutions with low pH are acidic and solutions with high pH are basic (also known as alkaline). Prior to the Industrial Revolution, average ocean pH was about 8.2. Today, average ocean pH is about 8.1. pH is a measure of how acidic/basic water is. The range goes from 0 - 14, with 7 being neutral. pHs of less than 7 indicate acidity, whereas a pH of greater than 7 indicates a base. Based by this science and a wee bit of simple mathematics (Now, I know most of you in the USA will fail to understand this simple mathematical formula as your school test scores reveal), shows that at the current rate, oceans will become acidic by the year 3400. Well past that date if indeed, the polar ice melts.

[@smmuajhossain9910]

Instead of wasting money on war and nuclear weapons, Developed countries should invest more money on protect nature and reduce the threat of global warming.

[@tamarausher60]

While war business is more profitable than green projects, it will always have an advantage over global environmental problems. The only thing the capitalist system understands is how to produce more and more goods, it is an endless procedure.

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

@@High1QWealth So, we need to starve to death. You first.

[@jim2376]

Excellent message. I wonder if dictators like Russian Tsar Vlade the Warmonger would follow your excellent advice.

[@lorenzoblum868]

The carbon /toxicity boot print of the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex anybody?

[@roadside8230]

Co2 can be converted into Graphene. We have the solution.

[@MichaelBanfield]

It's sad that nothing will be done until it starts to heavily affect people who live inland. I genuinely don't think humans will ever care tho.. 😔

[@QuantumBits0]

something's being done, slowly were getting there, we just need to raise more awareness

[@sew_gal7340]

It is too late, even if we stopped all emissions tomorrow it has been scientifically proven that things will just get worse. The time to do it was in the 80s

[@NobodyAsked-xh8cs]

@@sew_gal7340 HAHAHAHAHA THEY SAID 'WERE TOO LATE" BECAUSE THEY PREFER TO WASTE TIME CRYING ABOUT STUFF THAT DOESNT MATTER TO THEM INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY GETTING THINGS DONE HAHAHAH

[@nevadataylor]

Its not humans that will never care... its the capitalists who are the problem. They are psychotic and evil.

[@TonyIngram-kn2sq]

Only when it becomes profitable for billionaires and billionaire corporations will they actually move to stop producing these poisons and waste products

[@MujahidAli-cs4fk]

The awareness created in these are amazing things we can do.

[@jane-BKK]

more stories like this please.... the world lacks knowledge that the acids and carbon in the ocean kills living being inside the water, which will then have repercussion to food chain... well done for this clip... excellent reporting.

[@Joe-Dead]

@@brokencountry283 that is SO idiotic and about a 6 grade level of science...if you never paid attention in class fool. plants need MORE than carbon to live, and animals aren't PLANTS child. so hey, if you want an earth just for plants and a few animal species left...that nihilistic vision is on you. a planet to hot for humanities food crops and it's livestock. where water is scarce and arable land even scarcer. lastly to move the education scale up to uni, there are different types of photosynthesis which you simplistically equated to needing carbon to live. oh WOW, here's a surprise, being a CHEMICAL reaction, not MAGIC, it has limitations ONE of which is HEAT which when it increases it disrupts photosynthesis shutting it down completely or shutting down the carbon process. not all photosynthesis is equal child, go back to school.

[@jane-BKK]

@Broken Country says how much knowledge you have in your head...read or go back to grade 1....Ocean acidification is a consequence of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a greenhouse gas driving climate change. The ocean absorbs around one third of all human induced CO2, causing a change in seawater chemistry called ocean acidification. It presents a serious threat to marine life, ecosystem health and people whose livelihoods depend on the ocean.

[@engapill]

Very informative and revealing. The Economist never fails to deliver well supported research with verifiable information.

[@vsstdtbs3705]

Yes very informative except for one thing - does not discuss the most important issue facing humanity, overpopulation. Typically men can put down their subjects, but because women dominate voting, this will never be discussed. Instead grannies will march us towards the cliff.

[@ukeyaoitrash2618]

@@vsstdtbs3705 You sound like the type of person who would appreciate this catchy song I know. It starts with "Die Fahne hoch..."

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

Very well put irony, Anand.

[@ACTHdan]

@@vsstdtbs3705current fertility rates indicate under population in the future.

[@vsstdtbs3705]

@@ACTHdan We need to be less than 500 million today. Culling, war, pandemics has to be the answer, otherwise it will take too long.

[@istoppedcaring6209]

Heimdall is not commercially viable but the seagrass, yeah that makes perfect sense

[@donaldducko6580]

Wittgenstein O - “Reminder - At Davos they ate the most expensive beef from Japan and the best foods not a insect in sight. Insisted on planes being piloted by unjabbed pilots. Flew in on private jets and helicoptered to waiting SUVs. Hypocrisy at its finest.”

[@HusnaFazalAhmed]

Countries should meet to discuss on climate if they are committed to take action and take responsibility based on their economic and capacity

[@andrewgonzales1359]

The Economist does not have the interests of the environment in mind.

[@AmandaHugandKiss411]

What can be done? Nothing, deal with the fact that the Earth has always been changing and will continue to.

[@randomguy2108]

I don't understand some of the comments here, what do they have against combating climate change? and how is this topic even still debated, it is well established that we caused climate change and it should be stopped. Really bewilders me how there are still people not believing it exists.

[@romanpolanski4928]

It is NOT established that humans cause climate change. Since the last Glacial Maximum temperatures have fluctuated dramatically with no human intervention. 6000 years ago the Arctic Ocean was ice-free in Summer.

[@Neutralino]

@@romanpolanski4928 What is your source for that? Knies et al. (2014) put the Artic Ice cap being in place from around 2.6mya.

[@XlendneryGD]

@@romanpolanski4928 yeah its true but were warming the planet faster than it can adapt .-.

[@romanpolanski4928]

@@XlendneryGD Not so. During the Dryas and Younger Dryas Episodes at the end of the last Glacial Maximum the temperature changed by 5 deg C in only a century.

[@XlendneryGD]

@@romanpolanski4928 well yeah but the current heating is because of us unlike the cooling your telling me. This mean we have the possibility to control if it we wanted

[@Bendovermf]

Wow! Amazing work keep it up! It’s totally amazing seeing these kind of animals!❤

[@johndole9810]

That paper was written fifteen years ago.

[@AngieMeadKing]

How does melting ice caps affect the ocean acidification?

[@octavia4324]

The salinity declines and the sweeter water acidifies even faster.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

@@octavia4324 how acidification is related to the salinity?

[@jascam1]

Why are some people stressing themselves about climate change, we live on an evolutionary planet. The animals we now know and all our ecosystems have all evolved after numerous heating and cooling episodes. Get on with living the best life you can while been kind and respectful to your fellow human beings. Our lives only amount to a split second on the evolutionary time clock.

[@simonbilling2796]

We can be wise and compassionate about this ineviinevitable shift.... a natural occurrence assisted by another human civilisation l

[@XlendneryGD]

This comment is so dumb

[@melusine826]

WE are doing the damage and the RATE OF CHANGE is NOT on a standard evolutionary time scale (eg 10s of 1000s of years) but in a human lifespan or 2

[@spacetoast7783]

Just like all the dinosaurs adapted after the meteor strike.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Thank you for the drop of sanity in this ocean of panic!

[@vulcan4d]

Fun fact, we need to reverse CO2 emissions and not just reduce. Reduction is already an impossible task....we are doomed.

[@OldScientist]

Dangerous drivel. As regards ocean acidification, it is estimated that the ocean’s global mean surface pH may have declined (i.e., become less alkaline and thus more “acidic”) by -0.07 to -0.08 in the last 200 years - from pH8.12 during pre-industrial times to 8.04 to 8.05 today (Wei et al, 2015). N.B. The decline in pH occurred before 1930. However, and very importantly when you look the data after CO2 emissions began rising precipitously in the 1930s, the oceans have become less “acidic”!!! By way of comparison, from one season to the next, or over the course of less than 6 months, pH levels naturally change by ±0.15 pH units, or twice the overall rate of the last 200 years. On a per-decade scale, the changes are even more pronounced. Oceanic pH values naturally fluctuate up and down by up to 0.6 U within a span of a decade, with an overall range between 7.66 and 8.40. This is decadal rate of pH change is larger than the overall 200-year span (0.07-0.08) by a factor of 8.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Thank you!!! We need some sanity here.

[@ysub2435]

We slowly have polluted our own world, its like a way of no return if this continue to go this way.

[@frenchiepowell]

Well put together documentary

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

Ive not heard of any geo engineering concepts surrounding ocean acidification, ive seen some projects that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere though

[@lpiavelino6598]

ocean currents render oceans, a chaotic mess so how is it fair to take a sample of water from one spot in the ocean and expect it to be representative of the entire ocean? design an experiment with 11 flat bottomed flasks, each containing air with, 0.00%, 0.01%, 0.02%, 0.03%, 0.04%, 0.05%, 0.06%, 0.07%, 0.08%, 0.09%, 0.10% of carbon dioxide and a thermometer. keep them equidistant from a heat source and monitor their temperatures over a 24 hour period, to confirm how co2 affects atmospheric temperatures.

[@prasadkarsharma5849]

We need to findout our alternet food .

[@EmeraldView]

Have you seen some of the things that live there? Of course the ocean is on acid!

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

😂😂😂

[@freedomle4022]

It's going to get worse when we start digging up resources from the ocean.

[@adrianaslund8605]

No problem. We'll just put a huge Alka-Seltzer tablet in there every few years.

[@vanhasydan4754]

As to contributing sources of carbon dioxide, many of us are angry and disgusted with corporations and governments for their lies that cars are the main cause. The truth is that stationaly pollutersare the main source yet continue to get away with it while we drivers are constantly attacked.

[@patrick247two]

One more tipping point to fly by in our Dodge Ram.

[@paulh9329]

just face it we are living on a dying planet, with nowhere to go

[@AmandaHugandKiss411]

Because a container of water is a perfect model of the oceans on our planet. Get real.

[@BreadLightPray_EWFMgtr]

Climate change curious ❓⁉️ Discover the Reasons WHY _given 135 years in Advance via the Gift of Divine Revelation... I highly recommend reading "THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN" 1888 , REV. 1911

[@marius165]

On the beaches of Ecuador you can find pieces of corals everywhere. You wouldn't find them 2 years back.

[@MrNegative101]

Can’t wait. Humans deserve no less

[@teristeapot1823]

Sadly the rich humans will find a way, while the animals perish. IMO, we should all try to do our part.

[@ryanmalloy969]

Can we just dump pH up into the oceans?

[@scottw2317]

this is unnecessary. pH is not going towards neutral due to increased CO2, the water actually holds less CO2 due to temperature increases if these occur. We see this in the record with temperature increasing and 800-1200 years later CO2 levels increase as the oceans start to warm and when the oceans cool the CO2 levels start to drop 800-1200 years later. Temperature does have something to do with pH change but the changes we see in temp and alkalinity are essentially within error bars... often 2 to 3 decimal places in measurements. The previous inter-glacial was warmer than this one and much of the current Halocene was warmer than today's average. An example being 6000 years ago the artic was ice free every summer for thousands of years. This also helps put to bed the permafrost methane scare as well btw.

[@clublulu399]

We done for

[@Firegoddess23]

The main culprit are the developed countries who continue to import millions of tons of crude oil/LNG/LPG through marine ships without considering the consequences of such transportation it is high time these countries (heavily depend on fossil fuels) move to renewable energy resources or before its too late and climate change catastrophe become unfixable

[@starleyshelton2245]

Ready to give up that computer and live without heat, refrigeration, electricity? The 3rd world will be the worst impacted and least likely to comply. The richer countries can afford to pay for alternatives. Less well off will use oil, wood, dung, or whatever it takes to survive and to improve their situation. Then the starvation from decreased food supply from lack of fertilizers and insecticides. And of course transport.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Don't panic, everything will be fine.

[@patrickmclaughlin6013]

Lets feed the fish the bugs and then eat the fish.

[@expecto1982]

Who’s the evil twin? Selfishness. What you are experiencing in the Twilight Zone and the rest pit is the result of someone at Duma Key Mangoland Wax Doll Mars dying over to Wax Doll Antarctica.

[@Chad-Giga.]

CO2 +h20= carbonic acid+ocean= ocean acidification

[@NasserAljoudi92]

The weak will perish and only the fittest will survive.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

Why can't we add a nontoxic base to the oceans? Sprinkle tons and tons? How about barges with huge aquarium-type bubblers to re-oxygenate the water?

[@TANOCA17]

How about not polluting in the first place?

[@snow11wolf]

How about we just let nature do the job; Plankton, a basic plant prolific throughout the ocean; Almost all life in the ocean depends on tiny photosynthetic organisms known as phytoplankton. These microscopic plant-like organisms capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen. Phytoplankton act as Earth's lungs and have produced about half of all oxygen on Earth. And as with all plants, thrive on CO2.

[@proudchristian77]

Lord Jesus 👣 👑 is literally coming back to planet earth 🌏 y its a iffy mess 😳, we grew up with thugs & abusive & it's almost time for them to answer for their crimes against our young family, we lost two of them & life without mom & family is a bear to live through, i know their going to have a hard time with Him ,👣👑 ! 💝

[@fuck_Russian_bots]

Don't forget the 10's of thousands of tires they dumped in the Puget Sound that we are trying to clean up???

[@jeromethibodeau4378]

9 billion..., it would have been something...

[@knockonwall]

I appreciate the work that went into producing this. It's absolutely viral to drive the urgency of this problem to the public.

[@roadside8230]

Co2 can be converted into Graphene. We have the solution.

[@neonshadow5005]

The public knows, so do the governments .. the problem is, the governments don't care because they're owned by the very people doing all the damage and have no problem leaving their grand kids' a world in ruin where their families will die so long as it makes them just a bit richer today.

[@echelonrank3927]

you should have the urgency of this problem driven into you every morning instead of breakfast. and then you will sing a totally opposite song buddy.

[@echelonrank3927]

@@brokencountry283 no thats cool i was intending to make the extreme comment to receive a beefy comment back. now i can copy and paste your comment as my own comment under someone elses comment with the opposite viewpoint. because i find other people can write my comments better than i can. im not a terrorist im probably chatGPT or something.

[@ChinchillaBONK]

Vital*

[@MrAgmoore]

Cute that "The Economist" figured out that economists killed the Earth.

[@dankonesovic8437]

🤣

[@rubear8245]

THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. THE WEST. let's not beat around the bush they literally scorch the earth with fire, explosions, nuclear bombs, set light to oil fields blow up gas pipelines displace millions in countries of nomadic herdsman. The U.S government and its allies need to be held to account for the destruction of the environment and millions of suffering lives. they have the audacity to host climate summits and fly there in private jets and entourage. A country built on the blood of Indians. Stop supporting The mainstream media if they won't hold them to account and would rather guilty trip the new generations for their emissions.

[@PeterFile-xl3ch]

Such a fascinating topic more people should be aware of!!

[@puppeli]

Everybody has known about this for decades.

[@haydenbsiegel]

Ha! I remember running a DA on this subject in HS debate like several years ago. I am surprised it doesn't get more attention.

[@tonykumar951]

This video was amazing. I learned so much from watching your video would definitely recommend this. Great work

[@ThreeRunHomer]

Comments by right wing loons are always unintentionally funny.

[@Chaos5067]

Main causes of C02 emissions: Burning fossil fuels: The largest source of CO2 emissions is the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas for energy. This includes emissions from electricity generation, transportation, and industrial processes. Land-use changes: Deforestation and land-use changes, such as conversion of forests to agricultural land, can release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Agriculture: Agriculture, particularly livestock farming, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, primarily methane and nitrous oxide. Industrial processes: The production of cement, steel, and other industrial products can release large amounts of CO2 emissions. Residential and commercial buildings: Energy use in buildings for heating, cooling, and electricity can also contribute to CO2 emissions. We know the cause, we have some solutions. The only things that are preventing us from making changes are the people, governments and companies that are currently profiting from our current way of life, its not sustainable. Words are getting us nowhere... Actions speak louder than words.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

There are 2 billion people in the World today whose only source of energy is burning wood. Keep them in mind when you blaim combustible energy sources. Humans need energy to exist, so all combustibles will be in active use for a very long time.

[@snow11wolf]

The lower the pH value, the higher the acidity of a liquid. Solutions with low pH are acidic and solutions with high pH are basic (also known as alkaline). Prior to the Industrial Revolution, average ocean pH was about 8.2. Today, average ocean pH is about 8.1. pH is a measure of how acidic/basic water is. The range goes from 0 - 14, with 7 being neutral. pHs of less than 7 indicate acidity, whereas a pH of greater than 7 indicates a base. Based by this science and a wee bit of simple mathematics (Now, I know most of you in the USA will fail to understand this simple mathematical formula as your school test scores reveal), shows that at the current rate, oceans will become acidic by the year 3400. Well past that date if indeed, the polar ice melts.

[@kathrinacastro8533]

We need more videos like this it’s for people awareness.Really informative videos

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Ignorance is Bliss - surely you've noticed.

[@daisyy99]

I have never heard this before! How come? This should be news stories all over the world.

Start reading National Geographic Magazine.

[@iketheranter9126]

I've known about it for years now. Gotta be plugged in, looking around. Watching educational tv, listening to educational radio. Looking at news sources around the world. Most would rather ignore anything serious.

[@elmartillo7931]

Because it's not true. I suggest you check out a lecture by Dr Patrick Moore, he's a PhD in ecology and a founding member of Greenpeace. He's been trying to debunk this fear-mongering for years.

[@christopheespic]

@@elmartillo7931 Founding member of Greenpeace? Sure.... 🙄🙄

[@elmartillo7931]

@@christopheespic Yes until he started speaking out against them, and it's interesting how it's so easy to delete things when they're made electronic

[@lawrencemaweu]

Wow, we truly have messed up big time

[@nevadataylor]

Its not 'we' that have messed up... its the capitalists who are the problem. They are psychotic and evil.

[@thesilentone4024]

We should farm native plants and animals we should eat the invasive animals to reduce destruction of wild life and reduce hunger a bit more.

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

Very sad to see the beauty of the sea slowly dying off. We need to take care of this planet so future generations can enjoy the wonder and awe of the sea!

[@daisyy99]

Thank you London's Natural History Museum.

[@itsirkeel]

Let's grow lots and lots of kelp, and put the computer data farms underwater (either the Economist or Bloomberg have done a video on that), and change our proteins from cows and seafood to insects. That would help! Oh, and yeah. Back to bicycles.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Are you sure you want to heat the ocean with data farms? :)

[@andrewjackson7785]

If 97% of CO2 is produced naturally, most of it from the oceans, what caused the biggest explosion of life when CO2 was 6000 times higher? There will always be variations in what the ocean produces, and perhaps is mainly down to mankind taking more than we need, which gradually reduces the quality of catches. Check history when the medieval warm period enabled the Danes to settle in Greenland. It was much warmer then, and CO2 was much lower. Lots of historical contradictions to todays narrative.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

If 97 percent of c02 is produced naturally, why has c02 levels come up 144ppm in 270 years?

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Thank you so much for your comment! This is a drop of sanity into this lake of panic.

[@stefannusser4362]

Bicarbonate might be injected in great quantities to buffer ocean acidity -- it is already applied in plankton farms. However, somebody need to pay for it...

[@polyculeman]

this video hype those baby oysters so cute

[@WobbigongSoundSystem]

Hippies were destroyed to protect these toxic secrets. Great job savagely devastating the most beautiful world we will ever know so spoiled little rich kids can play golf.

[@AmandaHugandKiss411]

Hmmm Polar caps contain fresh water, Maybe they are supposed to be melting.

[@randymorgan8375]

Nobody ever talks about breading " the world is over populated it simply can't sustain

[@kayakMike1000]

Fun fact. All rain, especially during thunderstorms, is acid rain. Sure, some CO2 might contribute, but it's mostly nitrous and nitric acid. Lightning fixes nitrogen oxides naturally and these when dissolved in water make acid.

[@lotuseater7247]

not a fun fact, and one everyone knows.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

And now I am wondering if nitric acid is stronger than carbonic acid. It seems to me that HNO3 dissolves CaCO3 better that H2CO3. Another question: why no one says that the atmospheric CO2 might be increasing due to huge amounts of CO2 released by corals' and bivalves' shells dissolution (pure CaCO3 that releases CO2 in this process) which occurs due to acidification caused by various reasons? May be human impact on CO2 increase in the atmosphere is not as great as we believe? After all an expert from Hawaian CO2 capture project says: there are 150 times more CO2 in the ocean than in the atmosphere. So whatever ocean does is way stronger than what we do with all our industry.

[@live_free_or_perish]

The ocean is protecting the atmosphere from warming and excessive carbon dioxide. The warming is also preventing oxygen from dissolving into the water. Unfortunately, it's also killing ocean life, and it will take a very long time for it to recover. Studied this while getting a degree in environmental engineering.

[@boombot934]

Seriously, Big Oil, stop drilling in Alaska, or black bears🐻🐻 will bite you!

[@Kenneth-ts7bp]

The surfers are swimming in acid. This is horrible!

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Wow, wow, wow. Breathe! The ocean is still slightly alcaline. It will never be any close to what you consider being an acid. Your skin (pH 5.5) is way more acetic than the ocean.

[@drmosfet]

The only answer currently is nuclear fission, unfortunately the nuclear industry is highly reluctant to update there reactors to a safer non-uranium and water design like Thorium Molten Salt Reactor. So if you're planning on fish&chips in the distant future you will be paying dearly for it, from a aquaponics Farm that grows tilapia a reasonable cod substitute. The farm will most likely be powered by a thorium reactor purchased from China.

[@chinookvalley]

But... I live in the middle of the US, not by the ocean. Our plants are dying, so are insects, birds, and wildlife, but we aren't near any large cities here in rural Colorado. Our skies are consistently hazy, but we aren't near a large airport. Nature is suffering but I don't do anything to cause it to. Could it be that we all affect each other's lives? I hope you sense the sarcasm.

[@bobthrasher8226]

Nonsense. CO2 has varied greatly over the millennia and has been much higher than today and yet life has thrived. In the last few years we have seen the Great Barrier Reef grow at an astounding rate in spite of increased CO2. More CO2 would even be better as it improves crop yields.

[@songvumail]

Hehehe the real reason they are so worried is not because of how acidic it is right now but because of what it will become.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

We’re pumping c02 into atmosphere ten times faster then the petm extinction event, you should do some research on previous mass extinctions and compare it to the rate of this one

[@UnknownPascal-sc2nk]

It's grown from 27% to 36% but in a limited number of fragile coral species. A long way from recovery which cannot happen while we continue to pump CO2.

[@Jambes42]

1:58 what is the DOI of the article you are referencing here?

[@AmandaHugandKiss411]

Read about all of the cycles of the Earth, we have had this cycle twice in the time the Earth had water.

[@fe6646]

I like tech but huge sea grass and kelp farms sound sustainable and could produce more jobs, products and sea life to hide from predators.

[@CaddilacJoe1]

I'm sure bombs going off in the ocean doesn't help thing

[@wowJhil]

In many cases, I would be of the opinion that technology can be used to solve a problem. But when it comes to capturing the CO2 emissions that are already out there, I really think all these different ideas/projects going on now is just not right. They are not a reasonable solution, we cannot have millions of units maintained to deal with just what we had already. This is really, like inventing the wheel when it already exist! Instead, helping nature to recover and to grow more to capture this for us is absolutely the way to go.

[@sew_gal7340]

The only way to end it quickly is to allow it to happen and maybe half hte population will die off and hte earth can heal again

[@wowJhil]

@@sew_gal7340 When you say half the population, it's surely referring to humans and most likely it's the poorest that will die, not to mention all the other species that will die and eco systems that will get destroyed. Yes, humans may as well die off, but we are not alone.

[@DuncanAtkinson]

If we wanted to clean up our c02 emissions to date (not future emissions) using the tech at 13:30 it would take something like 27 trillion containers 27 years to clean up and would cost 11 QUADRILLION dollars... and if you put the shipping containers end to end, they would wrap around the earth nearly 3.5 million times! The co2 cost of building and running all these carbon capture devices not included.. its a joke.. please tell me my maths are wrong... But didn't he just say it would capture 37 tonnes a year.. and cost $425 per tonne.. $16k per year! also this is only co2 we have put out so far.. we would need to scale this up even more for all the future co2 emissions which are still rising!

[@wowJhil]

@@DuncanAtkinson yeah, I will not do the math, but I agree. it's like a gimmick, no value just an idea (a bad one). one of the dangers nowadays is that there are many not viable options still being pursued because people see opportunity to make money.

[@DuncanAtkinson]

@@wowJhil or worse funded by the oil industry as an excuse to continue to drill for more oil

[@oddsman01]

Oh, this reminds me of acid rain and the hole in the ozone.

[@teristeapot1823]

Both were stopped because governments told companies to stop using harmful chemicals.

[@oddsman01]

@@teristeapot1823 It’s adorable you think that. Maybe thats how global warming started? They did such a great job fixing the global cooling they told people about in the 70’s?

[@Thrillkilled]

@@oddsman01being condescending while having the critical thinking skills of a 12 year old is insane!

[@emmaday8971]

Interesting! Shocking and worrying. Why is this the first time I am hearing about it?

[@rogermartinez78]

This information has been known about for over a decade and the situation is getting worse, we need to break our addiction to fossil fuels!

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

@@rogermartinez78 These fuels are plant based. What's wrong with that now?

[@mwangas9529]

@@rogermartinez78 it's not WE. It only should be the top countries whose releasing more CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Meaning China, the United States, and India.

[@rogermartinez78]

@@mwangas9529 the last time I checked WE all live on the same blue planet called Earth and if WE don't fix this mess ain't none of us going to leave!

[@rogermartinez78]

@@Peter_Riis_DK I see you are stuck in the twentieth century buddy, me personally I am sick of fossil fuel cars of any type!

[@anumanthramsenthilkumar9005]

Ocean acidification turns out to be a very serious concern and the subscriber is highlighting the need of the time in this video which is appreciable

[@randymorgan8375]

Its way to late!! THAT a fact.. Should of started in the 70s

[@snow11wolf]

Check my latest replies. See what happens, maybe I will run for the USA President in 2028, after Trumps second term. However, I would hope Candace Owens will fill that spot. We shall see.

[@abdulhameedkhan4240]

Great initiative to aware people’s to take car or marine life by having right behaviour at seas point

[@matthewdolan5831]

Economist usually avoids biophysical reality like the plague as it mentions the unstated costs of the industrial system it thoughtlessly promotes.

[@kryori]

Someone warn that man about his moustache

[@deepashtray5605]

On top of the acidification is the sheer volume of debris and chemicals being washed into the ocean after every major weather event. Petroleum products, garbage, soot and topsoil, pesticides, debris from damaged and destroyed homes....

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Most of it causes no real harm to the ocean. It had happened before the human era too. May be there is some damage for some animals, but it only means a feast for other animals.

[@deepashtray5605]

@@СашиныРазговорчики No, in fact quite the opposite.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

@@deepashtray5605 in short term there is damage of course, but long term other factors have much more weight. (I mean evolution time frames where a whole species is considered, not an individual animal).

[@deepashtray5605]

@@СашиныРазговорчики Even without factoring in storm debris there are a number of "whole species" being directly threatened right now by all the garbage, debris and chemical waste we are dumping in the oceans, including species of sea turtles, whales and dolphins, and many pelagic bird species such as the Laysan albatross.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

@@deepashtray5605 I believe it's definitely necessary to manage our waste and environmental impact better. But I am afraid it's not possible to completely eliminate the damage we bring to other species. Humans are invasive species, very adaptive and currently growing in number. Unfortunately we by design not only adapt ourselves but adapt the environment in order to survive and grow the population. As animals we won't limit ourselves in order for other animals to thrive. It takes a lot of education and wealth to change priorities in a particular person, so they would start considering anything beyond their survival and procreation. Most of human population is not that wealthy and educated. So unfortunafely the trash will keep coming into the oceans. Hopefully in smaller amounts. (FYI: it's still allowed by international law to throw away food waste from ships into the ocean, only internal seas like Black sea are protected. Yet still sailors throw away not only food waste but also beer cans and other non-food waste even in the Black sea.)

[@johnkowall2629]

Thank you couldnt finish frustrating and sad

[@RikardJohansson]

I don't get it. Watching videos like these, where it's mentioned what we need to do to avoid it - it's _never_ mentioned eating a strict vegetarian diet, as part of the solution. It's always corps need to calm down or there's hope in some scientific experimentation, never the consumers, the root cause. Animal Agriculture is - with its combined threats - the single largest threat to mankind or rather all of earth. Co2 wise it's responsible to around 20-25% of our emissions. Unlike energy production, manufacturing and essentials which is sloooow to improve - the effect of AG can be be stopped _today_, all it takes is for you decide to stick with this optimal diet ( as it's officially been coined ). But why is it never mentioned, it has a huuuge impact on both global warming and ocean acidification, with all the crops and waste products due to AG. As well on antibiotic resistance, zoonotic deceases/epidemics and deforestation where AG is a majority of the cause.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Maybe because they know nothing can be done now?

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Imagine we ban meat and dairy industry. All these cows and other animals are released. Where do you think they are going to go for food? To the fields and gardens. After eating our nutricious crops they will breed like crazy. There are almost no natural enemies for them left (no wolves, tigers, bears, volverins). Next year we will see even more of them wandering around, eating our crops. And yeah, you guessed it right, still producing all this methane and manor! :)))

[@TechnicalShivam-bh1hv]

Thank You For This awesome Documentary❤❤❤. (Please Save The Ocean🙏🙏🙏) (Please Save The Earth🙏🙏🙏).

[@joesackbaron]

Great video. I'd never heard of it before. I'm amazed how this isn't more common widespread knowledge.

[@notfooled.]

Know what you mean, I amazed it's not more common knowledge, that the average temperature during the Medieval Warming Period was 1c hotter than the average since victorian times, or that the average temperature during the Roman Warming Period was 2c hotter. Must be because if disproves all the climate alarmist BS, and shows it as the tax grab con, it's always been

[@JayPatel-yg3nn]

This is a great video and I enjoyed every part of it

[@eetadakimasu]

it's definately not the ccp over fishing the ocean

[@spacetoast7783]

Did you mean to comment on a different video?

[@EmeraldView]

Can't that terapod just take its shell to the body shop?

[@EmeraldView]

Okay, so a friend just notified me that's only an option for reasonably well off people here in the first world when we get a ding in our cars and that terapods don't have that option. Dang. Sorry. Learn something new every day. I hope they get better soon.

[@PJVist]

Another scare tactic

[@sranney1]

Like the great barrier reef is dieing NOT 😂😂😂

[@snow11wolf]

It is doing just fine and growing!

[@zelbarnap]

The hardest part is how big it is. So depressing.

[@NeilMalthus]

There is an answer. We just have to discuss it.

[@loldiers3238]

Capitalism can seem unstoppable... until we grow a spine and abolish it.

[@hera7884]

Oceanic acidification happens first. This happened in the past, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. The world warmed by 5-8°C, there were rainforests in North America. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere sky rocketed, the oceans absorb carbon dioxide and the ocean suffers first. Then once the ocean can’t take anymore, the air becomes more concentrated with carbon dioxide and the heat on land sky rockets as well.

[@EmeraldView]

I love it when it's hot outside. Animals and fish love it too. As it gets warmer expect to see more-and-more of them just lazing about sunbathing. Don't disturb their rest though! You wouldn't appreciate it and neither do they.

[@gardenjoy5223]

@@EmeraldView Heat kills about a 100 times more people, than cold. Animals and fish don't love it. They die of it massively. Guess you are not the standard of everything.

[@EmeraldView]

@@gardenjoy5223 I was being facetious. 😋 Yes this will be devastating for wildlife.

[@gardenjoy5223]

@@EmeraldView Aha. Thought it was your age :) With too little oxygen in the water, because it is too warm, we already had die offs in the millions! Horrid.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

@@gardenjoy5223 tell this to those who survives in harsh winters. Both heat and frost crop thousands of lives every year globally.

[@maestoso47]

The irony of The Economist posting this.

[@EmeraldView]

😄 right

[@jinchoung]

feh. just start dumping baking soda. acidification is a problem that has ready to solutions.

[@anglosaxonmike8325]

For the last three years the planet has cooled. Down 0.04c last year. Antartica recorded the lowest temperatures ever seen this Winter. Lowest Temperatures ever recorded in America, a minus 109f windchill. The Grand Solar Minimum is starting to bite. It's going to get colder for at least 30 to 40 years.

[@СашиныРазговорчики]

Thank you for this information!