It’s Not Nice to Fool with Mother Nature Bobbi Sessions BIO1021 S01 Jonathan Heekin March 25, 2014 Water is the single compound on Earth to which life owes its very existence. Existing in three forms of solid, liquid and gas it is a driving force that can have devastating effects on the environment in which we live. The environment is constantly challenged by loss if this natural resource on a daily basis as humans is rapidly interfering with the cycle of life and extinction of plant species that help produce our food, clothing and shelter. The healthy hydrogen and oxygen have been replaced with carbon emissions that in the past have wiped out 95% of the inhabited Earths population due to dehydration and starvation. We’ve learned how to adapt to rising water but how can we adapt without. Waterborne disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. 3900 children die every day from diarrhea due to unsafe drinking water, poor hygiene and poor sanitation. Deforestation is a major issue in many countries. Some grasses such as bamboo, sugar cane and hemp are consumed, used for building or destroyed. These plants were specially modified through carbon compounds to preserve water, take in massive amounts of carbon dioxide and yield massive amounts of oxygen. Cellular respiration is a constant process that powers every activity of a cell and structure of an organism producing glucose or food, an immediate source for tissue repair. Most importantly, plants yield water in the respiration process for temperature control and maintaining growth just as our own bodies do. From 1970-2000 slash and burn agriculture has converted 10% of the biomass into barren wasteland. The bogs in Portlethen Scotland have been drained to make way for human construction resulting in over half of its biodiversity lost and the extinction of the Great Crested Newt, an amphibian who lives on land but breeds in ponds and pools are now protected by the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. For the sake of our own luxury living we have learned over time how to somewhat control water. We harness it for energy, cooling nuclear reactors, bathing and recreation. Innovation of populations have taken a few pointers from nature and decided where they want to build a dam or pumping station. Hundreds of miles of aquifers are run across the land either above or below ground for human consumption. Wells are dug many hundreds of feet into the earth to tap into fresh water supplies and now a canal for imports and exports have changed the entire flow of a body of water. By 1980, 80% of the wetlands in the United States have been occupied by human construction and the water sources have been diverted upstream for human use. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 killed nearly 2,000 people and cost $1 billion in recovery efforts. Only in the aftermath of nature’s fury do scientist and developers see how the wetlands are our first line of defense when nature wages war. When weather conditions are too dry, humans have found chemicals to seed the clouds and make it rain. Most commonly known as chemtrails or Climate Engineering, the process began in 1998 as aerosol spraying of aluminum oxide particles into the atmosphere to act as a sunscreen reflecting 1% of incoming sunlight (Teller, 2006). This father of the H. bomb convinced it cheaper to slow down global warming than to slow down carbon emissions. He also dumped iron into the oceans to stimulate plankton that could “potentially” eat carbon dioxide which resulted in a large fish kill. It is considered an exotic weapon for controlling rain or drought for the enemy and jam radar and telecommunications systems. “Deliberate actions appear to be a natural weather phenomenon” (Kuchinich, 2012). Test results from the chemicals sprayed in our skies have yielded astounding results. In 1950 biological agents were sprayed over San Francisco to see who got sick. In 1997 and again in 2000, U.S. Title 50, Section 32 was revised to allow exceptions for experimentations with human blood, bacteria, molds, virus, aluminum and barium spraying to levels that are deemed unsafe by the American Lung Association. Respiratory problems are becoming a serious and chronic illness especially in our developing children. Salt, precious gems and minerals have been mined through drilling and blasting. The copper mines in Colorado are larger than the hole created by a meteor that formed the Grand Canyon. Oil is a homophobic, flammable made from mineral deposits of the remains of plants and animals that sank to the bottom of the sea 10-600 million years ago. Movements of the Earth through folding, faulting and pinching trapped oil and natural gases in layers of rock (Freudenrich, 2013). Seismology is the most used method for finding the oil reserves below the Earth’s land and water surface. The technique creates shock waves through compressed-air gun, thumper truck and explosives to cause reflection to locate the traps beneath the surface. Oil is used industrially as lubricants and fuels and the demand for it increases every day. The U.S. produces 4.9 million barrels of crude oil per day and imports approximately 9.8 million barrels per day. Natural seeping, land vehicles and recreational boating are big contributors of pollution in our oceans today, (Dell’Amore, Nunez, 2014) an act now deemed “Carmageddon”. Spills during extraction or transport are the most obvious of human concerns rendering tremendous damage to our fragile biological system. Chemical dispersants and microbial bacteria are used in an effort to clean up these spills which in turn have led to a stalling of our Gulf Stream which depends on the United States for 85% of its flow (gulfbase.org). 64% of this flow comes from the Mississippi River. March 25, 1989, exactly 25 years ago today, the Exxon Valdez caused the world’s largest manmade disaster for history at the time from which some marine life are just now recuperating. In 2010 the Deep Water Horizon spill which gushed for 87 days raised concerns about the quality of the seafood right down to the eggs. Studies have found the exposure to oil has caused consistent heart defects in the embryos. It was spawning season for the Western Atlantic Bluefin already at record low levels of population and most likely died soon after hatching (Leschin-Hoar, 2014). Surviving marine life depend on swimming and heart defects greatly slowdown that process. Just last month the Environmental Protection Agency lifted its ban on BP and allowed them to bid again and watching the news as I write this paper they did it again in Lake Michigan. Just Saturday, another oil spill in the Port of Houston. Describe the common pattern of alternating extinctions and radiations. That’s a good one this day and time. I was born into the middle of this warfare and will take nature’s side in it. I have seen many species go extinct and many on the brink. In the last 100 years of this county’s existence the only radiations I’ve witnessed are the birth of new corporations. Every species on the planet to include our own is about to be disciplined in the laws of nature. The land has been plundered, the waters and atmosphere polluted and vital resources have been destroyed or depleted. Our plants have been modified which in turn have modified our bodies and it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature. References Freudenrich, Craig, PhD & Strickland, Jonathan (2013). How Oil Drilling Works. Retrieved From science.howstuffworks/environmental/energy/oil-drilling2.htm Leschin-Hoar, Claire (2014). Study Confirms Worst Fears: Massive BP Oil Spill Harmed Gulf’s Ecosystem. March 25, 2014 Retrieved from news.yahoo/study-confirms-worst-fears-massive-bp-oil-spill-212631946.html;_ylt=AwrBTzsVKjNTkXAAXxNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NXIwZ3RtBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NXSU1DMF8x Smith, Jerry E (2010). WEATHER WARFARE: The Military’s Plan to Draft Mother Nature. Retrieved from jerryesmith/ Teller, Edward (2006). Global Warming and Ice Ages. Retrieved from chemtrails911/intro_to_chem.htm
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