Ocean acidification is an overlooked topic in the realm of climate change, we usually associate climate change with global warming, melting ice and glaciers, coral bleaching, and all the types of pollution from air, to soil, to light. But the most threatening of them all is largely ignored.
Simply put, ocean acidification is theorised to make the atmosphere become toxic to breathe for us before the end of this century. Along with many other issues that climate change is producing from our incompetence to work alongside nature, we are heading head first into an unlivable world.
Carbonate-based marine life survival against pH: It brings together pH and biodiversity loss, and informs the prediction for a pH tipping point. By GOES Team’s Observations
If climate change makes our atmosphere unbreathable I doubt that we will survive, but the optimist and visionary inside of me demands that we need to look for a solution. So at the moment, with all of my (albeit limited) knowledge, we need to look towards innovations in space colonisation and adapt it for an Earth destroyed by climate change.
We do this by building new population centres that can save us from potentially upcoming planetary extinction. We need to create what futurists thought space colonisation was going to be, living in big bubbles safe from the danger of the outside world.
These need to cater to everybody and ensure that life inside these bubbles is as normal as they would be outside of it. And because we are building space bases here on Earth, it certainly doesn't mean we need to think within the confines of building in space. We can have many more resources dedicated to building them, and make them bigger than we could ever imagine for them in space.
These bubbles can essentially serve as bunkers or vaults that can store entire populations of people that aims to outlast the worst of the climate crisis and sustain itself for a very long time. If we want to seriously consider the survival of humanity, then this might be the only reasonable chance we have at preserving humanity and many other species from total extinction.
We should also look towards building a new type of civilisation in these bubbles, one that respects and loves the land, the air, and each other. Looking at utopian projects, we should certainly look at these ideas and implement/trial them where they would be most effective for the long term longevity and sustainability of the bubble.
One major difference between this new civilisation and our current one is that capitalism, from money to markets, must go. People say capitalism is natural, but we can clearly see from our planet’s reaction to the excess pollution that we produce because of our desire for money that it is simply not natural.
We must go towards a system of government and economics that works for the common person and the planet’s biosphere. Even if that means taking a few steps back technologically for a while, we cannot afford to lose the only planet we can live on.
There’s really no bright future ahead for all of us, most people see how bad things are getting but don't realise how bad it will get. There's truly no hope if you know what is in store for us, it may not be real now, but we are only seeing the beginning of global suffering.
But hopefully with projects springing up across the world to prepare for the biosphere & civilisation collapse, there is hope, and we need to build on those visionary ideals and work towards them.
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