Many of you know my personal legacy is devoted to environmental protection, conservation and support for the development of clean, renewable energy technologies. Now that folks seem to be getting the sense that global climate change is happening, addressing it is important and that it is economically and common sensically viable to do so (not only crucial to life as we know it on Earth), it seems the race to innovate and initiate new solutions is on. Yea!!
Imagine: what would the world be like if we all were racing to create better solutions, especially to environmental problems? From my perspective, it would allow us to eventually get away from fossil fuel based energy production, which is important why? Again, from where I live on the ocean it would stop us from killing the ocean and a crucial food chain all us Earthians depend on. The ocean is not the vast resource we once thought, that we can treat as a giant dumping ground (and unfortunately have). Between doing that and adding carbon to the atmosphere, which the ocean tries to help moderate by absorbing it and creating carbonic acid (H20 + CO2 = carbonic acid), not to mention unsustainable fishing practices, the ocean and its resources are dying.
Here’s a picture of where we’re going if we don’t race to find solutions. This is not just a scary story, we’re already actually on our way to this end:
Coral reefs and climate change, a message for Copenhagen from Earth Touch on Vimeo.
It was a video shown in Copenhagen as part of the effort to urge global solutions to climate change (of which the ocean acidification I mentioned is part). Consider your children and grandchildren and the world they will inherit from the current generation if we don’t get behind efforts to change things for the better.
Knowing this, what solution could you race toward as part of your consciously chosen life legacy? Let us know how we can help you!