How To Stop Climate Change
This Page Is Dedicated To Saving The Worlds Oceans & Marine Life. Education Is The Key To Unlocking Climate Change. Here Are The Four Biggest Contributors To The Death Of Our Reef And Oceans: Oil & Fossil Fuels, Single Use Plastics (How To Avoid Them & Dispose Of Them) GMO & Pesticides, Non-Reef Safe Sunscreen. You Can Use The Information Below To Help Prevent This From Happening And Reducing Or Even Eliminating Your Carbon Footprint.
Oil & Fossil Fuels
Today, fossil fuels supply more than 90% of the world’s energy.
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Earth has now warmed 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 19th century. -A new report has looked at the consequences of jumping to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius, Affecting millions of people worldwide to life-threatening heat waves, water shortages and coastal flooding.
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Facts:
The earth has already warmed 1.8 Degrees Fahrenheit since the 19th century. If the earth warms a half a degree more, it may mean the difference between a world with coral reefs, or a world without.
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Solutions:
Instead, we must look to clean and renewable energy…Solar, wind and electric vehicles! Use more ride sharing as much as possible, start walking more or riding bikes…anything we can do to reduce our dependence on the stuff that’s killing our planet.
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Kids Take Action Against Ocean Plastic | Watch The Video To See Why!
There are 5.3 Trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans.
By 2050, 99% of all seabirds will have eaten plastic and there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans.
Single Use Plastics
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381 million tons of plastic produced in 2017. (that’s 837,756,596,303 pounds of plastic annually) -Only 9% of all plastic been recycled. -1 million marine animals killed annually by plastic
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Can you believe that there’s no oxygen in some parts of the world, which we call DEAD ZONES where nothing can live.
GMO & Pesticides
Watch This Video To Find Out How Dead Zones Are Formed.
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Coastline run-off water nearly all polluted by pesticides. -Run-off flows to Ocean -Toxic run-off kills marine life and coral reefs
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Virtually all rural areas near the coastlines run-off water are polluted by pesticides. Run-off goes directly to our oceans, in turn, killing our marine life and Coral reefs. It’s been found that these chemicals affect all life-history stages of corals so we must stop this ASAP!
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Solutions:
Please Stop spraying your lawns and vegetation with these harmful chemicals! Use Natural Herbicides instead, Or…just don’t spray at all.
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Hawaii bans sunscreens with oxybenzone & Octianoxate, you can too. Find Out How from the video above.
14 THOUSAND TONS of sunscreen enters waters around coral reefs EACH YEAR.
Non-Reef Safe Sunscreen
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Scientists found 14,000 tons of sunscreen deposited ocean and reefs every year (28,000,000 million pounds annually. -Oxybenzon and Octinoxate chemicals in sunscreen that kill the reef
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Farmer Education
Follow The Link To Make A Donation To Save The Reef Charities That’s Sponsered In The Documentary.