It is bad enough in Florida, but 90% in the oceans comes down 2 rivers in Africa and 8 rivers in Asia. Some apparently shipped there from the US and Europe. No more single use plastics should be first then no more non-biodegradable plastics. Then outlaw having kids for 20 years, and V-8s and then all but electric/hybrid cars. No more diesel shipping, only sail and solar. Then no more jets, only solar powered aircraft. No more air conditioners or coal fired power plants, just solar, wind, wave and tidal, hydro, and Gen 4 only nuclear to use the waste and remaining fuel. Break up corporations and go to local production. No tax incentives for negative behaviors, or churches. Hang most of the present and past politicians who screwed things up or became millionaires while in office. All new construction must be waste using, re-cycled, re-used and indigenous products for materials. All water low use and recycling systems. No more lawns or artificial lake golf courses, with roof top and yard gardening mandatory. No more immigration and collect all fines owed by encouragers of illegals and the illegals themselves, plus mass deportation of them and their kids. No more unearned benefits for anyone. Lower the levels of acceptance and compassion, and let people die in this grossly overpopulated world. Death penalties in two weeks or less to all three time burglars on up, and end the profiteering prison system. No more crimes without victims on the books. legalize all drugs and let people OD of they want. No more cremations or preservative with all burials composting, same with waste. End the flush and forget, and make human waste into true compost. Back to a lot of the ways we had before.
The problem with all these ideas is that they should have been instituted Earth Day One. Now the oceans have absorbed enough extra heat to melt the sea ice cover on 1500GTs of shallow water methane clathrates in the Arctic by around 2024. Then latent heat effect sets in and a couple years later the stuff starts massive blowouts and goes into runaway releases to the point of the global temperature going up 1*F per year until all crops fail in about three years then most surface life begins going rapidly extinct, then the oceans as humidity goes up to 100% and total global cloud cover shuts off thermal gain from the sun for 100K years of acid rains from SO2 and NO producing bacteria thriving. It stops at deep ocean cold and gradually that cools it down to where the clouds open and cyanobacteria can restore the atmosphere again. In several million years life can re-evolve and many millions more to full diversity of strange or not so strange new species. Or an artificial aerosol event can be carefully done with buried nukes, and a long global winter, with the survivors replanting the Earth and building at least 100,000 CO2 to carbonate factories or similar types, with refrigeration units keeping the oceans cold while the CO2 returns to 300ppm in two centuries or so. Survivors selected to not have the negative characteristics of overbreeding, stupidity and greed. A new spirituality/morality of sustainability and replenishing the Earth replacing religions and cultures. Massive cleanup of the oceans and land. After all, a bottleneck is better than extinction of most life.
What will happen besides increasing chaos that we already see? Most alive now will see. No one wants to die, but no matter what, billions will. All 8 billion (then) or 7.95 billion? (with underground stocked fortresses and cities surviving the global winter but not an extinction event). It will stink, and not be fun. It would have been much easier to go one child families and 'green' living 50 years ago. I have said it since 1967, and lived it. I may not make it to the end myself, being old and disabled from my war wounds/injury, but I see it coming and have since then, evolving from a mere one species stimulated overpopulation to "crash" to a Permian style ELE.
There is another possibility many discount, and that is, besides doing the actions of lowering your eco-footprint, pray to God the Creator for Divine Intervention to restore our biosphere. There is a power greater than ourselves that can help. I am living proof of that.
_________________ "With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle “Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein
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