The Fishbowl Earth Project

Hi!  Welcome to Fishbowl Earth.  The idea behind this blog is simple: imagine that instead of people walking around a planet, we're actually fish inside of a fishbowl.  As more and more of us fill it up, our environment works harder and harder to keep up, until it ultimately fails. 

What's a poor fishy to do?

Well, at the aquarium store they sell stuff for keeping a clean, aerated fish bowl (or tank) that keeps the environment nice and fresh for fish.  Filters, air stones, pumps, nets, sponges, snails, and probably some other environment-fresheners I'm not thinking of to avoid...

The Toxic Tank.

You know, when the tank gets all green and nasty with algae blooms and the water turns toxic and the fish can't breathe in their own water. 

Scientists are tackling these problems for the Earth, and proving (at least at the experimental level) that solutions will work - IF deployed at scale.  And scale takes money. Without funding, these ideas are still not helping the environment.

In the posts ahead, we'll look at some of these ideas, and how they could work to save our little fish bowl biosphere.  Although the scale of some of the proposals is daunting (mining seven cubic miles of olivine, for example), the successful human projects that dot our planet were no less so.  If we ALL agree that this priority is the most important, doing it will be second nature.


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