Raina the Halifax Mermaid! Real mermaid swimming to an ocean near you! http://www.rainamermaid.com find her on facebook!
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
-this version is credited to Mother Theresa
I know not everyone believes in God, and that’s okay. This is just one of my favourite quotes and I think it rings true- religious or not.
Human-Caused Oceanic Death Spiral
This could be the worst news about marine ecology of all time, so, except for those whose heads are perpetually in the sand, please read very carefully.
Phytoplankton has since the 1950s declined 40% globally, or 1% per year on average. The decline is especially severe near the poles where the loss has been 90%, and the tropics.
Phytoplankton serves three important functions:
1. It absorbs dissolved carbon dioxide from ocean waters. This prevents the oceans from becoming acidified, and severe acidification can cause massive extinction. At the End-Permian 251 million years ago, global-warming-related ocean acidification did cause a 95% mass-extinction of marine species, including all corals.
2. It releases oxygen into the oceans and the atmosphere, to about the same extent as the terrestrial plants, replenishing that previously removed by the animals and by oxidation of various kinds including combustion.
3. It serve as foundational source for the entire marine food pyramid. No phytoplankton, no zooplankton. No plankton, no fish. No fish, no marine mammals and birds.
Unfortunately, anthropogenic greenhouse gasses independently lead to ocean warming and acidification, which cause decline of the phytoplankton, rendering it ineffective in alleviating acidification as well as oxygen regeneration.
We are driving marine ecology into a death spiral with our current way of life. Unless we radically change our course, we are dooming our own children to hell on Earth.
“Can this be changed in time?” asks Shannon Wright.
Anthony Marr’s answer: “Other than a total greening of technology and way of life, we need massive geo-engineering to deacidify the oceans and recool the planet, which requires INTEGRATIVE TRANSCENDENCE of the nations into a single global civilization known in the OMNISCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY as the PLANETARY ORGANISM of which the nations shall be organs. Can we do it? Of course miracles CAN happen. Will this one happen? It is up to us.”
For Anthony Marr’s blog with 6 diagrams, see:
http://homosapienssaveyourearth.blogspot.com/2012/09/human-caused-oceanic-death-spiral.html
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
For more details, see this Scientific American article for more details:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=phytoplankton-population
deforestation leaves the world a little flat. Many people think mermaids don’t care about the land but that’s untrue! Mermaids know that all life is connected. What happens on land affects the sea just as the sea can change the land.
Learn about deforestation and what you can do to help througy NATGeo here:
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/
Mermaid Ama and I… trying to get a good photo in the surf… not having much luck lol
I’d like to introduce you to Mermaid Ama. She’s sporting Mermaid Minerals and wearing the sea crown, earrings, and necklaces I’ve made for her! She’s new to the mer-world, and my baby sister :)
my little sister is getting into mermaiding. Here she is in some of my gear I’ve made
