If our carbon emissions — and
ocean acidity — continue to rise at current rates, aragonite in the
southern ocean could start to dissolve by 2060.
We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing
acidity of the
oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the
southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.