Enjoy
your Northwest grown Oysters while you can. Unless something changes
dramatically in the very near future, they are going to either become
very expensive or simply unavailable for pretty much ever.
It does not take a biology degree to see what's going on and what the
cause of it is. Pouring all of this carbon into the atmosphere and
ocean is having a dramatic effect unprecedented in the lifetime of this
planet.
From the Article:
"Today's explosive increase in human CO2 emissions and warming of the
oceans are recreating the conditions of the great Permian extinction 300
million years ago when massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia triggered
the release of enormous amounts of stored carbon. A leading theory is
that deoxygenation
and acidification of the oceans led to the bacterial production of
toxic hydrogen sulfide gas which poisoned species dependent on oxygen.
By the end of this natural catastrophe 90% to 95% of all marine species
were extinct. The biodiversity of the oceans took 30 million years for
to recover."
I don't think we've got 30
million years just lying around for nature to come back and correct this
colossal problem. This is no longer a problem we can ignore for future
generations to sort out. This is the problem past generations ignored
and now we have to deal with it.
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