Why should we care what happens to the Oceans ?
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80% of the worlds oxygen is produced in the oceans by microscopic plants, and 30% of the carbon dioxide is fixed by organisms smaller than 0.05mm. We know that atmospheric oxygen levels are dropping and carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing.
Most life on earth lives in the oceans, and is too small to seen by eye, according to NASA, the microscopic life forms are dying off at a rate of 1% every year. This means that almost 1% off all life on the planet is dying every year. Research from Universities such as Dalhousie in Nova Scotia, published in Nature, report that more than 40% of all microscopic life has died since the 1950s, the start of the chemical revolution as opposed to the industrial reveolution. As a consequence, the oceans are losing their ability to sequester carbon dioxide which means that carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing, making the oceans more acidic.
The pH (acidity) has dropped from 8.26 to 8.06 over the last 50 years. Over the next 25 to 40 years it will drop to pH7.9, at which point there will be a cascade failure of the marine ecosystem, and we lose all the teleost fish, whales, seals, birds and food supply for 2 billion people.
Increasing temperatures and carbon dioxide, as well as all the nutrients from pollution should increase primary productivity, yet we are see a drop of 1% every year. This situation is not sustainable, but why is it happening? we know that it is certainly not climate change.
Priority chemical pollution in combination with hydrophobic micro and nano particles is the explanation. Reducing CO2 emissions is not going to have any impact, we need to also reduce and eliminate priority chemicals such as PCBs, PBDE, mercury and organic tins.
The position of the Goes Foundation is to use ocean yachts, and any means possible to collect plankton samples for analysis of priority chemicals. We need the evidence to relate ocean pollution to primary productivity. If we can stop priority chemical pollution, we can prevent a cascade failure of the marine ecosystem, protect the food supply for 2 billion people, and maybe reverse climate change.
Progress reports
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
Type of commitment
NUTRIENTS
- Other (please specify): Priority chemicals
PLASTICS
- Other (please specify): Impact on primary productivity
OTHER POLLUTANTS (please specify)
- Industrial effluent pre-treatment
- Other (please specify): Dryden Aqua are the largest manufacture of filter media in Europe, we are dedicated to finding solutions to priority chemical pollution
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
Type of commitment
- Other (please specify): Prevent a crash in primary productivity and we increase carbon fixation
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
Type of commitment
- Scientific, socioeconomic and interdisciplinary research
- Data access and sharing
- Scientific cooperation
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of The Future We Want
Type of commitment
- Strengthening ocean governance, for example through the development of a national ocean policy or regional ocean policy
January/2018
Set up an ocean plankton sampling network
January/2020
Analyse plankton samples for priority chemicals
January/2021
Relate concentrations of priority chemicals to marine p;roductivity
January/2022
Quantify the impact of priority chemicals and establish if an ocean cascade failure can be prevented, and the potential to reverse climate change
