The existence of oxygen on the earth can be said to be the basis of most life forms, and without oxygen, it is basically a catastrophic problem.
然而，在4月4日，《科學進步》雜誌發表了 一項研究，著實讓很多人都感到驚訝，科學家警告大氣氧氣減少，的確沒想到地球的氧氣在不斷減少， 並且非常的瘋狂，這說明什麼？
That is, the earth may be undergoing a subversive transformation, and the future earth will really go billions of years ago? In this case, it is definitely not a good thing for human beings, because under the reduction of oxygen, human beings will have "breathing difficulties", and even eventually disappear due to lack of oxygen.
Many people may think that this is not much, and they don't see any impact on the change in oxygen, but then again, everyone should understand the things that add up, right? So, if it goes on like this, it's certainly not a good thing. So why is this happening? Or because of the human beings themselves.
The study shows that the way oxygen is produced and used in inland waters has changed dramatically since 1900, and the main culprit is the changes brought about by human activities.
According to geoscientists Junjie Wang and Jack Middelburg, there has been an increase in global "oxygen renewal" (i.e., the amount of oxygen produced and consumed). But this is a distortion – these waters consume more oxygen than they produce, making them tanks of oxygen in the atmosphere.
More agriculture, more wastewater, more dams, and a warmer climate are all changing the way our freshwater ecosystems work, and the algae grow faster as more nutrients flow into rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, but when they die and decompose, they consume a lot of oxygen.
Among them, the most direct factor is the change of human activities, or directly, the change of human activities has brought about a major change in these aspects, followed by intermittent temperature changes, which also lead to the transformation of oxygen.
其實就是全球變暖的推動性，全球變暖還在繼續瘋狂，世界氣象組織在3月才發佈了說明，那就是大氣中的二氧化碳濃度達到了80萬年來的最高水準，加速了冰川和海冰的融化，也使得2024年成為了有記錄以來最熱的一年，2024年氣溫升幅超出工業化前水準1.5攝氏度的首個年份。
Therefore, the increasingly hot and hotter climate change of the planet has led to its problems becoming more and more severe, and the effects of this part of the warming account for 20-0% of the total oxygen change.
然而，從1900年代以來的情況來看，科學家表示——“儘管這些水覆蓋了地球表面的一小部分，但現在它們每年從大氣中清除了近10億噸的氧氣，這就是最為嚴峻的。
So, we can no longer ignore the oxygen impact of inland waters on the planet, because they are changing faster than we think, and they are a key part of the Earth system puzzle.
看到沒？地球的氧氣減少真的是太瘋狂了！1年大氣減少近10億噸氧氣，要是這樣下去，地球是不是真的就是顛覆性變化？要變成一個生命體滅絕的時代？這也讓很多人想到了一件事情，此前地球的氧氣爆發期。
Indeed, this point in time is what you call the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), when the earth was just formed, the whole earth did not have any oxygen, and later, thanks to photosynthetic bacteria, there was oxygen in our atmosphere, accounting for about 20%.
These bacteria, like trees and other plants, consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen, which is why the Earth is moving towards a complex process of life.
所以，地球的生命體還是來之不易，而對於這一件事情的出現，科學家將地球大氣中首次出現氧氣的事件稱為大氧化事件，它發生在距今約24億年前。
However, this time the study seems to have once again discovered that the earth has entered a process of earth-shaking change, that is, the reduction of oxygen, which is undoubtedly devastating for the vast majority of life if it appears. At the same time, this is not the first time that such warnings have been issued about the transition process of the earth's oxygen.
早在2021年的時候，《自然》雜誌就發佈了一項研究，聲稱地球大氣層將迎來顛覆性的轉變，這一轉變將使地球回到24億年前——大氧化事件（GOE）之前的狀態，雖然當時的研究並不是說人類的活動帶來的劇烈變化。
However, a problem was mentioned, which is that as the brightness of the sun and the heat radiated to the earth increases, the gas will be broken down more, resulting in a relative decrease in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which will reduce the functioning of photosynthetic organisms and further reduce their oxygen content.
And this time, the problem of warming under human activities actually echoes the problem of the earth's heat, so this shows that the fact of warming is presented on the same issue. If this also leads to a decrease in oxygen in many ways, then in the end the Earth's oxygen will only decrease at an accelerated rate, not an increase.
Therefore, it shows in many ways that the earth may be undergoing "silent" drastic changes, which is a very terrible thing, and when the earth really reduces the existence of oxygen step by step in the future, the circulatory system of the whole earth will inevitably have problems.
The ripple effect will only be more, because a problem in one link will lead to changes in many links.
Indeed, it seems that the future of the earth without oxygen seems to be a trend, if this life form wants to survive, human beings want to survive, it seems that there is no choice, can human beings only migrate?
In fact, it can only be said that such a change is not a good thing, but it does not mean that only migration can solve such a problem, and is there a way for humans to move to other celestial bodies? There is no way at all, there are no basic conditions, not to mention that the "second earth", which is the most critical for human survival, does not exist at all. Therefore, it is necessary to build on such a problem and solve it fundamentally.
But development must not be changed, because if human beings want to survive, at most they can alleviate the problem of climate change, that is, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and plant more trees, at least such problems can still be partially solved.
So, it's not that there is no way, but to see if human beings are willing to do it, if it really comes to the most desperate point, it is really too late to regret it.
And it just so happens that human beings have not yet come to this point, otherwise the warming of the earth will not continue to go crazy, which I believe most people have also seen, so there is not much time left for human beings to change.
Whether it is the reduction of oxygen released this time, or the extreme climate change process of the earth, there is a common root problem, that is, the problem of global warming, which can only be solved in the future, otherwise there is no way.