As fascinating as all your posts are, they are also some of the most depressing I end up reading on Steemit, lol! I sincerely hope that through posts like this we can successfully convince the general population that it's easy to change our lifestyles to ways that live in harmony with the world around us - so that the earth can continue to support us in turn.
Do you know offhand if these dead zones are growing in number/size, staying stagnant, or slowly disappearing at all? Maybe I don't want to know the answer to that...
Hah, hopefully I don't depress you enough that I scare you away! I hope my posts do help convince more people to care about and work towards solving environmental issues. I do what I can- by trying to live sustainably, by raising awareness with posts like these, by protesting, and by heckling my elected officials and protesting. (I recently helped convince my senator to support a landslide research and prevention bill, which felt pretty good- as did actually receiving personal responses to my email.)
The dead zones are on average increasing in number and size, but there's a lot of variation year to year and by season. A drought or economic collapse in a farming region can reduce them in size, but a bumper crop year with lots of rain can drastically increase them in size.
no not at all!! I love your blog! It's one of the most informative I've come across! If anything, after the depression phase, I feel armed with facts that I can spew at people who don't get the whole environmental movement. So thanks for that!
ugh that's scary. Well even if people did little things and were just more aware, then I feel like that would make a bigger difference than we think. Well we'll see anyway...
Enough people contributing small amounts adds up quick!
If you want to do something in the short term- email or call your elected officials to support environmental causes. Bonus points if you're contacting them about specific bills you'd like them to support or fight. Doesn't take more than a few minutes including research, and can potentially make a huge impact.
indeed! And I do... :3 haha