What is killing our earth?

For the last few days, we have been working on explanations on climate change and what it is doing for our planet and what we can do to stop it. I chose tree deforestation and ocean accidafication.

What is killing our earth

There are a lot of things killing our earth but two things are really threatening our air, and adding to the issue of climate change. Today I will be explaining why ocean acidification and tree deforestation are two of the things we should be talking about.

What is tree deforestation: Tree deforestation is trees being cut down, but not at the normal pace. Trees have been cut down for centuries but this time it is getting outrageous! People are cutting down trees but not bothering to plant new trees. If no one plants trees for the earth and they only take trees, we won’t have any left.  This is becoming a very big problem because trees give us a lot of oxygen but this source of oxygen is being cut down or burnt down at this very minute. Did you notice how I said burnt down, well if you think I put that there by mistake you would be very wrong, One of the biggest forests in the world that releases 20% of our oxygen is being burnt down that’s right the Amazon rainforest is being burnt to clear room for agriculture? This is adding to a lot of the oxygen disappearing and is also at the same time releasing more fossil fuels adding to the ever-increasing CO2 supply.

Ocean acidification: ocean acidification is the ocean is getting more acidic. The reason this is happening just because of more co2 coming into the air and going into the ocean. Why is that a bad thing? Well, this is what happens when too much co2 goes in the ocean co2+h2o=h2co3 and h2co3 and h2co3 makes hydrogen and hydrogen is acidifying the ocean. Plus shellfish, mollusks and corals are dying off because they are not getting enough calcium carbonates which they need to produce a skeleton without this skeleton they will die.  To make calcium carbonates you need to add co2 to ca+2=caco3 aka calcium carbonates3 and this formula cant be made drawn to all the co2 mixing with the h2o this way there is no co2 for the ca (calcium) to make calcium carbonates.  So shellfish, mollusks and corals cant produce a skeleton and their old skeletons are dissolving since there are no calcium carbonates this has a big impact on the world because corals produce oxygen, which we obviously need to live.

How do we resolve this: Well to resolve deforestation we need to stop taking trees for granted and chop them down like they’re nothing because they provide a very large supply of our oxygen and without them, we would be doomed so if you ever cut down a tree, plant a new tree. It is really easy to do. Now how do we stop ocean acidification this one is a bit harder to resolve, but a way to subdue the ocean acidifying is by reducing your carbon footprint a way of doing this is by using less single-use plastic, taking the bus instead of driving in a car everywhere and by taking strikes to show people we need to do something about these problems.

I hope this explanation showed you two things that are killing our earth and also showed you to be more careful with the things you do to the earth and will help you realise this problem and we need to resolve it before it becomes too big. We need to save the earth for future generations and if that means planting trees and taking the bus every once and a while then I don’t think it’s too much to ask.

By Anika