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Most people are just worried about their day to day lives, and don't usually ever consider what supports their lives. From our daily lives we disrupt the Earth's ecosystems, which throws the balance out of wack.

One factor that I've been looking into recently is carbon dioxide levels rising througout the next 100 years (if we don't kill ourselves by then). This also contributes to global warming, resulting in more storms/rain. Rain helps put carbon dioxide into the water, which supports the ecosystems down under. With CO2 levels rising (double the level in 50 yrs, triple in 100 if I remember correctly), more will go into the ocean. Coral slows down its rate of growth by a lot when CO2 levels rise, and algea takes over. Because of fishing going out of control from the population rising, there isn't much to get rid of that algae. The coral will die, fish will die, many things will die.

Another CO2 case is in the forests. Forests quite literally overflow when too much CO2 comes in. It's just it's natural capacity. So now the forests giving off oxygen, stop giving it off basically. When a drought strikes, forests give off CO2 from the rotting plant life, decay all over.


There's more, but by now most of you will have stopped reading this. This combined with many other problems is going to lead to the extinction of the human race. Hopefully we won't take too many more species with us.

Hope you read through it all.

Yes, but in my opinion we should take away basically all emissions. We've already ******** it up so much that nature will need help, not just taking down the amount put out.
I'm not familiar with the Kyoto Treaty. Can you explain please?

The Kyoto Treaty is basically an international treaty based on emission sharing. So every country that's a signatory to the treaty (the US is not one of them) get so many "credits" each year for how much emissions they're allowed to produce. If they produce fewer emissions than they're "credit limit", then they can trade the spare credits to countries that have produced more emissions than they're allotted limit. Each year, the "credit limit" is reduced, with the eventual goal to reduce emissions by at least half. The problem is that half wouldn't be anywhere near enough to have much of an impact, since every credible estimate says that emissions would have to be cut by at least 80% world wide just to stabilize the environment. If we wanted to actually reverse all the problems we've caused with the environment, we'd have to completely alter our way of living.

I never knew half of that stuff. I really think you are going somewhere with this. As for the Kyoto Treaty, It should work. What really will kill the human race is All the natural gas and oil wells will dry up in 100 years, and all of the human race will be forced into more primitave ways of cooking, traveling, and that will cause things such as riots and fights over all the wood, for fires. Then all of the world's forests will be comepletley destroyed and we will lose a lot of oxygen and eventually die out from no oxygen.