The Great Climate Migration Has Begun

[David Lockmiller]

President Abraham Lincoln might cite Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be] by William Shakespeare:

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

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(07-27-2020 01:16 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  Such a fragile, poorly-designed mess of a world. It almost makes one question whether it was designed at all, or isn't just the result of some random, chance kind of thing. If we could just get rid of a few billion people, the outlook for this planet would be so much better. Then, if we could get the remaining people to adopt a much more third-world-like lifestyle, we'd have it made. Of course, the elites (the ones harping the loudest about climate change, etc.) would still be allowed to live it up in their many mansions, privately-owned jets, and so forth. The deprivations suffered by the common, less-important (nonessential, in current parlance) people would make up for it.

"Most of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen that we depend on as humans comes predominantly from the ocean. More specifically from microscopic ocean plants called phytoplankton."

https://bescienced.com/where-does-the-ox...come-from/

The article to which you refer makes two relevant statements:

1) [M]ost people think that most of earth’s oxygen comes from trees. However, trees are definitely not the only source of oxygen. Actually, the Amazon forest, frequently named as “the lung of the planet”, only produces 20% of the oxygen released on Earth each year.

I previously posted the following quotation from the PBS News Hour:

“Tropical forests shrunk by 29 million acres in 2019. The Democratic Republic of Congo lost 1.2 million acres.“

2) Phytoplankton grow and get their own energy through photosynthesis and are responsible for producing an estimated 50% of the world’s oxygen.

The Scientific American, celebrating 175 years of publication last year, published on February 25, 2019 an article titled "The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn."

The subtitle of the article reads: "Widespread and sometimes drastic marine oxygen declines are stressing sensitive species—a trend that will continue with climate change."