Save Our Happy Place - 🌎 Take Simple Climate Action
Hey there Sunshine! Welcome back to Save Our Happy Place, your weekly pop of environmental and climate action. Each week we explore an area of our world and the climate movement to help answer that burning question, “What can I do to help the climate crisis?“. This World Oceans Month we welcome Kevin Travis, Science Officer at California Ocean Science Trust, to guide us through protecting our oceans and utilizing them to fight climate change. Be sure to check out last week’s edition where we cover personal measures you can take. This week we’re looking at the larger issues facing our oceans and the systemic solutions needed to solve them. Be sure to take our four climate actions to help Save Our Seas! Seas Saving SolutionsKnow them, Love Them, Demand ThenThe ocean is a critical regulator of Earth’s climate and plays a massive role in mitigating climate change impacts. Despite its ability to regulate climate, the ocean is still falling victim to climate change and human-generated pollution, thus causing more climate change issues. On a happy note, tons of solutions exist and are in the works. They just need continued support from activists like you. Be sure, to take our 4 quick actions this week to help Save Our Seas through government regulations. As a quick recap from last week, here is a bulleted list of the relationships between our oceans, climate change, and the ongoing human contribution creating these problems. How Climate Change is Negatively Impacting Our Oceans:
How Humans are Contributing Directly to Marine Climate Issues:
What are the most effective/realistic solutions?Thankfully, the global climate movement has started to realize and tap into the power of the ocean as a solution to climate change. Marine renewables have recently gained momentum as a promising energy source in our fight to transition away from fossil fuels. Most prominently, major investments into renewable offshore wind energy have skyrocketed in the last few years, especially in the US under the Biden Administration. Although there are still global issues, commercial fisheries have improved greatly by incorporating new practices to reduce bycatch (unwanted catch), avoid whale entanglements, and sustainably harvest their catch. Marine aquaculture is seen as a promising pathway for sustainable seafood with many co-benefits, such as habitat for species and carbon sequestration potential. Restoration of coastal ecosystems (also known as “living shorelines”, such as wetlands or mangroves) provides nature-based coastal protection against climate change impacts while restoring habitat and increasing biodiversity. Lastly, marine conservation areas (also known as marine protected areas) can serve as import refuges for threatened or endangered species. Four Actions to Save Our SeasSupport for H.R. 3764 - Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act of 2021
Support Biden’s 30x30 executive order to conserve 30% of oceans (and land) by 2030
Tell the Biden Interior Department: No New Offshore Drilling Lease Sales
#DEFENDTHEDEEP: Stop Deep Seabed Mining
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