This
book presents a solutions based approach to reducing and removing CO2 from the
atmosphere transforming it into solid (crystalline) CaCO3 through the ability
of marine organisms such as molluscs, crustacea, corals, and coccolithophore
algae. The overwhelming advantage of this approach is that it promises enhanced
climate mitigation in comparison to planting forests, industrial/engineering
carbon capture and storage process. It also provides a sustainable food
resource. Furthermore, it would improve the ocean's biodiversity at the same
time as the excess atmospheric CO2 released by our use of fossil fuels is
returned to the place it belongs - as a present day fossil, safely out of the
atmosphere to the distant future. If the level of finance and global effort
that are readily foreseen for forest management and flue gas treatments were
applied to expansion of global shellfish cultivation, curative amounts of
carbon dioxide could be permanently removed from the atmosphere within a few
decades. The concept presented in this book could have a profound influence on
the life of the planet.
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