{"id":68493,"date":"2024-06-09T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68493"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:01:33","slug":"means-of-extinction-earth-is-too-salty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68493","title":{"rendered":"Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guymcpherson.substack.com\/p\/means-of-extinction-earth-is-too\">Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"youtube2-OnxsO-5IYRQ\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;OnxsO-5IYRQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"Youtube2ToDOM\">\n<div class=\"youtube-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OnxsO-5IYRQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have not produced a video titled\u00a0<em>Means of Extinction<\/em>\u00a0since 30 July 2021. At that point, I had identified six means by which we were rapidly driving ourselves to extinction. Due to the rate of environmental change in our wake, and also the uncontrolled meltdown of nuclear power plants, any one of these means of extinction will lead to the extinction of all life on Earth. Nearly three years after I reported six phenomena by which we are driving ourselves to extinction in the near term, two additional means have appeared. I\u2019ll report on one of them with this short video.<\/p>\n<p>According to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/an-existential-threat-humans-are-disrupting-the-natural-salt-cycle-on-a-global-scale\/\" rel=\"\">article at\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/an-existential-threat-humans-are-disrupting-the-natural-salt-cycle-on-a-global-scale\/\" rel=\"\">SciTechDaily<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/an-existential-threat-humans-are-disrupting-the-natural-salt-cycle-on-a-global-scale\/\" rel=\"\">, humans are disrupting the planetary salt cycle, thus causing an existential threat<\/a>. The article was published 2 November 2023. It is titled\u00a0<em>An \u201cExistential Threat\u201d \u2013 Humans Are Disrupting the Natural Salt Cycle on a Global Scale<\/em>. The subhead is \u201cA research group headed by a geologist from the University of Maryland warns that the influx of salt in streams and rivers is an \u2018existential threat.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the opening paragraph: \u201cThe planet\u2019s demand for salt is not without its toll on both ecological systems and human well-being, according to a new scientific review led by University of Maryland\u00a0Geology\u00a0Professor\u00a0Sujay Kaushal. Published in the journal\u00a0<em>Nature Reviews Earth &amp; Environment<\/em>, the paper revealed that human activities are making Earth\u2019s air, soil, and freshwater saltier, which could pose an \u2018existential threat\u2019 if current trends continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the buried lede, in the following paragraph: \u201cGeologic and hydrologic processes bring salts to Earth\u2019s surface over time, but human activities such as mining and land development are rapidly accelerating the natural \u2018salt cycle.\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty I have not produced a video titled\u00a0Means of Extinction\u00a0since 30 July 2021. At that point, I had identified six means by which we were rapidly driving ourselves to extinction. Due to the rate of environmental change in our wake, and also the uncontrolled meltdown of nuclear power plants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20,23085,287,34684,34682,12241,697,34683],"class_list":["post-68493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-existential-threat","tag-extinction","tag-r-mcpherson","tag-road-salt","tag-roads","tag-salt","tag-salt-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68494,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68493\/revisions\/68494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}