I am so sorry to bring you
this news, especially if you haven’t yet heard, but it is so dire I feel I have
to.
I’ll let the headline tell the story: “NASA
Warns Earth Is Running Out of Oxygen, Study Predicts End Date.” Earth is running
out of oxygen?! Bummer. I guess we should just get our
affairs in order and man-up for the end. Tell your spouse you love them and
call your mother if you can.
How bad is it? How little
time do we have left? Well, researchers used climate and bio geochemical models
to simulate the Earth’s future atmospheric changes…and determined that oxygen
levels will plummet to deadly levels in about one billion years.
One billion years?!
At the rate humans are going and with the rapid onset of Artificial
Intelligence and ever-more deadly and easily dispersible weapons, we’ll be
lucky if we make it another one hundred years! Maybe that headline (MSN/The
Hearty Soul) was nothing more than clickbait. (Which, unfortunately, would make
it like nearly every other headline on nearly ever mainstream “news” platform.)
The “expert’s” study
revealed that oxygen levels will eventually collapse as the sun brightens. Because,
according to these scientists, as the sun brightens, carbon dioxide will
rapidly diminish, halting photosynthesis and thereby causing oxygen levels to
plummet. This seems ironic to me, as I’ve been taught to believe that carbon
dioxide is a dangerous “greenhouse
gas”
that is proliferating and leading to the global warming that will soon cause
Earth to burst into flames and the ocean to boil. And now we’re being told that
carbon dioxide is necessary for a robust and stable supply of life-giving
oxygen?!
I’m confused. I can’t
breathe. I don’t know what to think.
Just kidding! Carbon dioxide
and oxygen levels are fine.
Ignore the clickbait and
breathe easy everyone.
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