Soon enough, the image above will look like our reality, everywhere. All of our food supply will be processed instead of natural, and we will be unable to enjoy the natural benefits that fish and other sea creatures provide us. To some, this seems extremely unrealistic the future predictions of scientists and environmentalists typically exaggerated. But this is no exaggeration, because we are RIGHT in the middle of it.
Making the Connection
Since the stone age, we have relied on the health of the ocean to provide us with natural resources and services such as food, mining, and storage of CO2 (which we have evidently abused).
Although the projected pH levels wont be detrimental to human skin while immersed in the ocean anytime soon, the acidification of the ocean will have
a rippling effect to our food and resource supply, which overall affects our economy and way of life. Many of the fish we eat are dependent on the shelled animals WE are killing. "From an interpretive standpoint, the important
thing is to help people realize how they are personally connected to the ocean, and then to be able to explain to them how that connection is being jeopardized by ocean acidification" (Climate Interpreter. "Ocean Acidification"). This article brings up a spectacular point, we ARE connected to the ocean, simply because we rely on it, which is why we can say confidently that the collapse of the food chains in the ocean will quickly result in the collapse of our economy.
Looking at it from an economic standpoint, there are four major components that support this consensus.
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
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