#oceandeadzones

[codydolan-vegan]

Eating animals: Like burning your own house down while your still in it. 🏠 #OurHouseIsOnFire 🥩=🌍🔥 -When people eat animals they also go against their own core values that most people have. Such as being against animal abuse, being kind, compassionate, having empathy. -We don't need to eat animals, its completely unnecessary. We can just replace that piece of meat with a vegan protein source like tofu, vegan meat, beans and more. -Animal agriculture is one of the most environmentally destructive industries on this planet. 🌍🍽️ -Using most of the earths water, land and crops. 🌊🌾🌽🌳🐮 -Causing species extinction, ocean dead zones, and habitat destruction. -We could feed more people with plant based foods because it requires less land to grow crops than raise animals. 🍎🍌🍊🍠🥔 -You could get more pounds of plant based food than animal flesh per year with the same amount of land. 🌱 👀For more info watch: •Conspiracy •Seaspiracy •Dominion •Earthlings •DontWatch.Org __ #govegan #vegan #veganism #drawings #art #artists #veganart #vegandrawing #climatecrisis #climatechange #climateactivist #animalagriculture #noplanetb #meat #meatindustry #everythingisfine #iloveanimals #speciesextinction #oceandeadzones #habitatdestruction #truthseekers #climatechangeart #animalrights #animalliberation #ecofriendly #savetheplanet #environmental #environmentalism https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnUbdypmZx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[eco-nnect]

Water "dead zones"

Despite our inability to breathe underwater as human beings, there is a small amount of oxygen present in natural waters that allows survival of marine life. Though water molecules (H2O) contain an oxygen atom, this is not what aquatic organisms survive on: circa ten molecules of oxygen per million of water is actually dissolved in water, which is breathed by fish and zooplankton to survive. Can water actually lose this oxygen? Indeed, through a process known as deoxygenation which has been mostly attributed to climate change, but other anthropogenic activities are contributing to the problem. 

Among these, the so-called nutrient run-off from upstream farms and lawns: when fertilizers are excessively used, nutrients wash off into waterways, and eventually in the ocean. The shortcoming of fertilizers is attributable to their composition, which usually consists of nitrogen and phosphorus elements. These chemical substances are naturally present in our ecosystem and sustain planetary cycling of elements that are indispensable for life on Earth. However, the increased anthropogenic input causes a buildup of these elements in estuaries, freshwater lakes and coastal ecosystems that feeds algae growth. The unlimited growth of phytoplankton alters the food chain and exacerbates the depletion of dissolved oxygen in water: this process is known as eutrophication and leads to inconvenient algal blooms, decreases biodiversity and degrades waterbodies. Oxygen depletion is a result of the bacterial degradation of the plant material – phytoplankton – that sinks and decomposes whilst consuming the oxygen supply present in water. An area with less oxygen dissolved is known as hypoxic zone but is commonly referred to as “dead zone” because is inhospitable for marine organisms.

The impact of nutrient overloading is not limited to water bodies, but it extends to a degeneration of aesthetic and economic values significant to human well-being. Despite hypoxic regions naturally occur, their number, size and duration have been amplified due to anthropogenic nutrient contributions from a variety of sources such as agricultural, municipal and industrial.  This phenomenon is striking for marine life but for the economy as well: the fishing and tourism sector usually undergo monetary losses in warmer seasons – spring and summer – when the algal bloom begins. One of the most renown dead zones in the world is the Gulf of Mexico, where the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers discharge and subsurface waters are depleted of dissolved oxygen, failing to support most life, including commercially desirable species. The Gulf of Mexico is a major source area for the seafood industry and supplies 72% of U.S. harvested shrimp, 66% of harvested oysters and 16% of commercial fish (Potash and Phosphate Institutes of the U.S. and Canada, 1999).

 To mitigate the “dead zone” problem it is important to address the issue at source: reducing use of fertilizers on farmland that results in excessive runoff of nutrients and looking at nature-based solutions that can benefit both the planet and farmers. For example, scientists have addressed the issue by adding vegetation to act as a riparian buffer: four lines of plants that will naturally hold nitrogen in their roots, separating farmland from streams and adding biodiversity to the area. The second strategy to mitigate dead zones lies in restoring river floodplains and wetlands as the native plants include riparian buffers that can act as filter for nitrogen.  Moreover, these nature-based solutions can only mitigate the problem and not solve it; companies that excessively use fertilizers on farmlands should take responsibility to decrease their input. Below, link to the petition to ask Tyson Foods to keep their promise and make meat less polluting: 

 https://www.thepetitionsite.com/it-it/929/806/900/tell-tyson-to-clean-up-its-pollution-and-help-rivers-and-the-dead-zone/

   Sources: 

1.   https://www.kunc.org/environment/2016-09-23/scientists-search-for-new-ways-to-fight-gulf-dead-zone

2.   https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/dissolved-oxygen-and-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

3.   S. S. Rabotyagov, C. L. Kling, P. W. Gassman, N. N. Rabalais, R. E. Turner, The Economics of Dead Zones: Causes, Impacts, Policy Challenges, and a Model of the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 8, Issue 1, Winter 2014, Pages 58–79

4.   Microbial Life Educational Resources, https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/ deadzone/index.html

5.   Potash and Phosphate Institute, 1999, Phosphorus and the environment: Better Crops with Plant Food, v. 83, no. 1, p. 37–39. 

[jimabernethy]

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Video by @jim_abernethy // For as long as I can remember I've always been mesmerized by the view to the surface being covered with Sharks! This view from Tiger Beach has a Tiger, some Lemons and many Caribbean Reef Sharks! Can you spot the Tiger? Sadly this view is just a fraction of what I saw decades ago! In Palm Beach County Florida for example, the silhouettes of countless schooling scalloped hammerheads and bull sharks in the winter months are still in my mind, although i haven't seen these incredible views in over 4 decades. We must stop slaughtering our wildlife! We must alter our planet's course into a sustainable direction! We must not allow the 6th extinction to happen! Will you be part of the solution? I believe, hope and pray, this Covid-19 pandemic will result in our species looking at what we have done to our only planet and its beautiful creatures and massive change will happen! I truly hope this will accelerate everything our fellow Earthlings really need. Here's some of the list of our global issues: We end the illegal wildlife trade! Huge switch to Plant-based lifestyle essentially ending Agricultural Animal industry. Immense efforts to end global warming including replanting and rewilding of land we have cleared. The end of production of one time use plastics! Reusable plastic increases in value resulting in our species cleaning our planet of plastic garbage for income like many metals. Technology increases to finally end our own water pollution, ocean and land dead zones. We end all destructive fishing methods with huge wasted bycatch. Would you all please help me with this list of what our planet and our creatures really need! What are your Hope's for the future? Enjoy but Please Protect! @jim_abernethy @wildlifevoiceinc @sealegacy #saveplanetearth #plantbased #endglobalwarming #globalissues #oceandeadzones #rewild #endwaterpollution #planttrees #endonetimeuseplastics (at Tiger Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-b3VcVpgoW/?igshid=1sr1pp1lkn9md

[wildlifevoiceinc]

Image by @jim_abernethy World Ocean Day // A beautiful leatherback turtle begins life at sea, faced with many world problems caused by our species that we can fix! On our planets World Ocean Day, I believe we need to reflect on the heart of our planet, our ocean, the issues facing it and lastly take action immediately to start repairing the damage we have caused. If we all make changes individually, I believe we can alter the course of our planet into a sustainable direction! Here is a partial list of the most serious issues, our oceans, our planet and all earthlings face from my perspective! OCEAN ISSUES 1. Overfishing 2. Globalwarming & Ocean Acidification 3. Plastic Pollution 4. Ocean & Land Dead Zones 5. Coral reef and ecosystem collapse 6. Toxic chemicals OCEAN SOLUTIONS 1. Vegetarian and Vegan lifestyle would help solve many of these issues as well as your health by just this one change! 2. Switching to nondestructive energies now and get off coal energy forever! 3. Ban one time use plastics worldwide & clean our oceans! 4. Ban destructive chemicals worldwide! 5. Marine Protected Areas are the key to helping our oceans recover! Support all efforts for MPA's! 6. Elect Environmental Politicians committed to fixing our planet man made issues! Will you be a part of the solution? Will you make the necessary changes for the future of our oceans, fellow earthlings and our planet? @jim_abernethy @wildlifevoiceinc @sealegacy #TurningTheTide #globalwarming #worldproblems #oceanacidification #vegan #marineprotectedzones #stopthepoison #oceandeadzones #Banonetimeuseplastics #alternativeenergy (at Palm Beach County, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BydUD1CBMWN/?igshid=hgkd2imsbetc

[onlymeeeee]

Most days when I go out side to get fresh air, all I think about are the tears and screams into the distance which I think is unfair. They scream they cry, they seak comfort. They die and end up on your table. it is unfair that slavery still exsits among the innocent and weak, among the voiceless; they weap. The creatures of god if he may be true, why is the world so cruel? Life is so precious so kind; it is also so divine... it simply blows my mind. a life is beautiful but how can humans deprive an animal of life? We should eat to survive... The rights of the innocent and weak... This life is so bleak. There is no such thing as humane murder; when the life of the innocent and weak are in our hands. Why must we be accustomed to these demands!!!!!!!! Animals are not ours to keep! Animals are not ours to eat! Animals are not are not ours to beat!! Animals are the cirlce of life! Life is Not a triangle of hierarchy. We are all one we all have rights and the power of anarchy. Endless unnecessary murder for the convients of taste, and false beliefs. If you were told the truth opposed to the lies you've known since birth maybe more animals would still be on this earth -2048 #veganism #animalcruelty #animallover #vegan #animalabuse #waterdepletion #oceandeadzones #speciesextinction #murder #deforestation #dieases

[md-maarawi]

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction. Repost @simpleorganiclife Repost @cowspiracy #cowspiracy #animalagriculture #environmentaldegradation #speciesextinction #oceandeadzones #rainforestdestruction #waterpollution #goplantbased #vegan

[sweetemilybowl]

#Repost @cowspiracy (@get_repost) ・・・ "According to the Alliance of World Scientists, a group comprised of over 15,000 scientists from over 184 countries, humans need to change their individual consumption and behavior… soon. Among encouraging people to lower their use of fossil fuels and reduce their reproduction rates — because, seriously, the Earth can’t sustain all of us — they urged folks to, essentially, go vegan." Source: https://www.livekindly.co/scientists-say-going-vegan-help-save-planet/amp/ @livekindlyco #cowspiracy #loveyourmother #veganisthesolution #ditchmeatanddairy #oceandeadzones #speciesextinction #greenhousegases #habitatdestruction #worldhunger #environmentaldestruction (at New Bedford, Massachusetts)

[eco-nnect]

Water Dead Zones

Despite our inability to breathe underwater as human beings, there is a small amount of oxygen present in natural waters that allows survival of marine life. Though water molecules (H2O) contain an oxygen atom, this is not what aquatic organisms survive on: circa ten molecules of oxygen per million of water is actually dissolved in water, which is breathed by fish and zooplankton to survive. Can water actually lose this oxygen? Indeed, through a process known as deoxygenation which has been mostly attributed to climate change, but other anthropogenic activities are contributing to the problem. 

Among these, the so-called nutrient run-off from upstream farms and lawns: when fertilizers are excessively used, nutrients wash off into waterways, and eventually in the ocean. The shortcoming of fertilizers is attributable to their composition, which usually consists of nitrogen and phosphorus elements. These chemical substances are naturally present in our ecosystem and sustain planetary cycling of elements that are indispensable for life on Earth. However, the increased anthropogenic input causes a buildup of these elements in estuaries, freshwater lakes and coastal ecosystems that feeds algae growth.

The unlimited growth of phytoplankton alters the food chain and exacerbates the depletion of dissolved oxygen in water: this process is known as eutrophication and leads to inconvenient algal blooms, decreases biodiversity and degrades waterbodies. Oxygen depletion is a result of the bacterial degradation of the plant material – phytoplankton – that sinks and decomposes whilst consuming the oxygen supply present in water. An area with less oxygen dissolved is known as hypoxic zone but is commonly referred to as “dead zone” because is inhospitable for marine organisms.

The impact of nutrient overloading is not limited to water bodies, but it extends to a degeneration of aesthetic and economic values significant to human well-being. Despite hypoxic regions naturally occur, their number, size and duration have been amplified due to anthropogenic nutrient contributions from a variety of sources such as agricultural, municipal and industrial. 

This phenomenon is striking for marine life but for the economy as well: the fishing and tourism sector usually undergo monetary losses in warmer seasons – spring and summer – when the algal bloom begins. One of the most renown dead zones in the world is the Gulf of Mexico, where the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers discharge and subsurface waters are depleted of dissolved oxygen, failing to support most life, including commercially desirable species. The Gulf of Mexico is a major source area for the seafood industry and supplies 72% of U.S. harvested shrimp, 66% of harvested oysters and 16% of commercial fish (Potash and Phosphate Institutes of the U.S. and Canada, 1999).

To mitigate the “dead zone” problem it is important to address the issue at source: reducing use of fertilizers on farmland that results in excessive runoff of nutrients and looking at nature-based solutions that can benefit both the planet and farmers. For example, scientists have addressed the issue by adding vegetation to act as a riparian buffer: four lines of plants that will naturally hold nitrogen in their roots, separating farmland from streams and adding biodiversity to the area.

The second strategy to mitigate dead zones lies in restoring river floodplains and wetlands as the native plants include riparian buffers that can act as filter for nitrogen.  Moreover, these nature-based solutions can only mitigate the problem and not solve it; companies that excessively use fertilizers on farmlands should take responsibility to decrease their input. Below, link to the petition to ask Tyson Foods to keep their promise and make meat less polluting: 

Sources: 

https://www.kunc.org/environment/2016-09-23/scientists-search-for-new-ways-to-fight-gulf-dead-zone

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/dissolved-oxygen-and-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

S. S. Rabotyagov, C. L. Kling, P. W. Gassman, N. N. Rabalais, R. E. Turner, The Economics of Dead Zones: Causes, Impacts, Policy Challenges, and a Model of the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 8, Issue 1, Winter 2014, Pages 58–79

Microbial Life Educational Resources, https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/ deadzone/index.html

Potash and Phosphate Institute, 1999, Phosphorus and the environment: Better Crops with Plant Food, v. 83, no. 1, p. 37–39. 

[jimabernethy]

Image by @jim_abernethy // A beautiful Polar Bear checks me out in the morning sun in north Canada! It saddens me greatly that these magnificent creatures will most likely be with the first groups of animals that become extinct directly because of global warming! We all must do as much as possible to prevent our planet temperature from continuing to rise! Our Agricultural animals are one of the biggest contributors to global warming as well as many of the other worst problems are planet is facing. Here's a list of the problems they cause! 1 Globalwarming/climate change 2 Rainforest Destruction 3 Water pollution and depletion 4 Species Extinction 5 Habitat loss 6 Western Civilization Illness 7 Ocean Dead Zones 8 Eastern civilization starvation 9 animal abuse, exploitation and killing Please consider going vegetarian or vegan or at least eating less animal meat! Together we can save our beautiful planet! @jim_abernethy @wildlifevoiceinc @sealegacy #TurningTheTide #speciesextinction #rainforestdestruction #vegetarian #veganfornature #climatechange #humanstarvation #vegan #globalwarmingisreal #waterpollution #oceandeadzones #habitatloss (at Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B08VWKipqWz/?igshid=ifkjh9zjik54

[kraigvalentino-blog]

STOP NOW!!! #animalagriculture #leadingcauseofglobalwarming #globalwarming #deforestation #speciesextinction #waterdepletion #oceandeadzones #wakeup #animalactivist #factoryfarming #stopfactoryfarming #meatcausescancer #share #research #savetheplanet #respectyourself #respecttheplanet #respectalllife #vegan #ethical

[onlymeeeee]

Open your mind to the endless possiblities change can occur it starts with the flesh on your plate and the bodily fluids you consume. #govegan #meatismurder #dairyiscruel #animalsarenotslaves. #osteoporosis #heartfailure. #diabetes #highcholesterol #heartattact #oceandeadzones. #deforestation #waterdepletion #pollution #worldhunger #overconsumption #death

[thesoulfulveganista]

So true! There are no isolated incidents; every action we take affects everyone else around us, so those who support animal agriculture are directly contributing to its environmental destruction. It's not a personal choice if it detriments other people's lives and fucks with our earthly home. #environmentaldestruction #environment #earth #wakeup #cognitivedissonance #eco #carnism #meat #dairy #eggs #oceandeadzones #pollution #corruption #speciesism #rant #morrissey #vegan #whatvegansdo #getupstandup #karma

[someveganfacts]

Fact 043. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.

Source // http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

[jimabernethy]

Image by our founder @jim_abernethy // As our planet warms I truly hope your doing everything within your power to combat this climate crisis! Polar Bears are just one of many animals that rely on ice in order to catch their main food source...seals. I'm hoping and praying all these polar animals will adapt however it is unlikely! By far the easiest thing we can all do is to switch to a plant-based lifestyle. I did this 7 years ago and it is the best thing I've ever done for my health. With all the delicious plant-based meats it has never been easier!! This will not only improve your health but also help knock out the leading cause of ten of our planet's worst problems. See the second image for the list. Just add zoonotic viruses to the list! Let's all work hard at altering the course of our planet into a sustainable direction! Thank you! @Jim_abernethy @wildlifevoiceinc #plantbased #climatechange #climatesolutions #speciesextinction #polarbear #globalwarming #deforestation #oceandeadzones #landdeadzones #bekindtoanimals #rainforestdestruction #beautiful (at Mother Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbrcNGJO536/?utm_medium=tumblr