This is due to the warming of the earth and the pollution of the sea with both waste and excess carbon dioxide
In less than 25 years, most of the creatures living in underwater reefs are going to disappear from the world, according to recent studies by scientists of the US National Oceanic-Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The water temperature that rises as a result of global warming weakens the reef's resistance against pests such as soil currents that arise from construction sites, toxins secreted from the paint of boats, and more. The reef, which is known to be the home of countless marine creatures and plants, is so fragile that even warming slightly above the normal temperature of the water may throw it out of balance, thus causing it to lose its pigments and be exposed to diseases. In addition, an increase in the acidity of ocean water in the last hundred years, which was caused by the absorption of hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide emitted by the burning of fuels, severely impairs the development and survival of corals and shellfish.
Over 30 percent of the world's coral reefs have died in the last 50 years and another 30 percent have been severely damaged. The expectation for the next 25 years is the complete extinction of about 60 percent of the coral reefs. In other words, underwater life is under threat of catastrophic extinction.
"The oceans are changing frequently," says Professor Stefan Ramstorf, head of the Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam, Germany, at a UN conference on climate change that brought together representatives from a hundred countries that took place a few weeks ago in Kenya. "The acidification of ocean water is a huge threat to marine organisms." In a study called "The ocean in the future - warming, rising, acidifying", Ramstorff and eight other scientists They warn that the world is predicting, globally, problems similar to the acid rain phenomenon of the 70s and 80s.
Sushi lovers are not the only ones who stand in the battle against the prophecies of destruction, it must be remembered that fish are a basic and sometimes even exclusive part of the menu of other, larger animals. That complex system of interactions known as the "food chain", which links the simplest living creatures to the super-carnivores and omnivores (including humans), may undergo fundamental changes with the disappearance of the reef and its inhabitants.
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By the middle of the century there will be no fish left in the sea
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I don't know if something like this has been done or is being done, but in my opinion a large organization with means that deals in the field should take on a project whose goal will be the preservation by freezing of as many species alive today: marine reptiles, terrestrial reptiles, marine mammals, terrestrial mammals, birds and all types of animals the known
In the future, if we don't consume ourselves first, after we remain alone on the globe, and we finally reach the ability to live without polluting and destroying what surrounds us, and after we see with our own eyes that we are late like a train will arrive at the platform at top speed and only then remember to start braking, someone will say that we are actually Not so alone on earth and someone took care of that in advance. They will open the DNA bank of the natural world that they will be able to preserve with the help of the aforementioned project, and like Noah's ark, animals will begin to come out into the world. And the earth will return to be a home for the restrained man and all the animals - in the sea and on the land and in the air above, and man will live in peace with his home.