Earth’s Thin Zone Of Life
Priority Number One!
Take a good hard look at the above blue planet we live on. It’s likely that it’s only one in 700 quintillion planets that can sustain life as we know it in our universe. In other words, there’s nowhere else to go!
Our Biosphere
The Thin Outer Layers
Our Atmosphere: Air, that thin light blue region outlining the circumference of the planet (above pic) is our atmosphere. The life sustaining portion is only 7 miles high. That is only .0013% of the diameter of the earth.
Our Hydrosphere: Water is seemingly abundant, making up 71% of the earth’s surface. But fresh water makes up only 4% of our total water supply, and potable water is less than .5%. In total, water only accounts for 0.02% of our planet’s total volume.
Our Lithosphere: Soils – To sustain life our living soils must remain healthy as well.
The balance of our primary life-giving natural resources as listed above are fragile and finite.
Global Warming Shattered Sky Earth Tree (Image Credit Andrew Lumban Gaol)
It’s imperative we protect this narrow range of life ecosystem and it’s ecology that supports life on this eggshell of a biosphere as we know it.
Without question, humans, unlike any other species on this planet, have the cognitive and technological ability to literally change the environment of our life sustaining biosphere for the worse. Science indicates, in no uncertain terms, that we are upsetting the ecological life sustaining properties of our biosphere. There’s absolutely no denying this fact.
What climate change and pollution deniers fail to realize is that we are much like the fabled frog in a pot coming to a slow boil, we will not perceive the outcome until it’s too late if we idlily sit by and do nothing. The process of ecosystem breakdown is slow and insidious and won’t look much different than current climate extremes and environmental degradation. Science is trying to tell us that it is highly likely once we hit critical mass (point of no return) there will not be a revelation to convince us of the problem, and by the time there is, as deniers are suggesting we must have before we become proactive, it will likely be too late to mitigate the damage and further degradation will run it’s course unabated with potential devastating consequences.
Like the second coming, the exact prediction of when critical mass will occur is irrelevant to the topic at hand. Not only is it irrelevant, it’s an extremely irresponsible red herring designed to mislead and distract from the relevancy and importance of this critically important topic.
As stewards of the earth, as cognizant, critical thinking beings, at this point in time, it would be monumentally irresponsible for humans to ignore these facts and to fail to establish, put into action, and maintain real mitigating efforts as soon and as efficiently possible!
The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed as the zone of life on Earth, a closed self-regulating system.
Time to stop the perverted politicizing of this issue!