The end of oxygen on Earth already has a date

Here we are consuming oxygen and producing carbon dioxide at an alarming rate. We already know that COP28 is a load of hot air and bla bla bla according to Greta.

Yet is it our consumption of oxygen that will be the death of the planet. Will all life end because of what we are doing to the atmosphere?

Well.. yes and no.

For the ‘yes’ vote it is probably our production of carbon dioxide that will continue to cause the rapid increase in global temperature. It is already so rapid that evolutionary processes cannot keep up with the rate of change. We will see many more species going extinct due to this. To be clear, we are in a mass extinction event scenario. A recent big one killed the dinos.

For the ‘no’ vote. “Panic-ye-not’, you don’t have to feel guilty because you have converted all of the lovely oxygen to carbon dioxide. You can go to your grave without thinking that you’ve murdered your decedents. Your get out clause is that the universe is conspiring against us. No matter what we do, the thing that gave us life will take it away. This is not a religious post.

The sun, giver of life and exterminator will ultimately burn off our atmosphere, evaporate our oceans a a billion years or so. In the meantime we can continue to find many gas related ways of killing ourselves.

See this link for more https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/science/the-end-of-oxygen-on-earth-already-has-a-date.html