How Seaweed Will Save Us All…

Find out how something as simple as seaweed can help save the world from its impending demise.

Charles Harlem
4 min readJul 16, 2020
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The world is messed up…

From rising sea levels that will devastate costal communities to the melting Arctic that will forever alter ecosystems, it’s no question that the climate has been drastically changing for the worse.

Most people believe the solution to climate change is simply to reduce our carbon emissions and decrease pollution. However, this is a common misconception.

Not only must we reduce emissions every year, but we also must start removing carbon dioxide emissions currently in our atmosphere. Without removing emissions, coming close to net zero emissions will be impossible.

“Now, what the scientists are telling us we need to do over the next 80-odd years to the end of this century, is to cut our greenhouse gas emissions by three percent every year, and draw three gigatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere every year. Those numbers are so large that they baffle us. But that’s what the scientists tell us we need to do” — Tim Flannery , Australia’s ex-Climate Commissioner

There are 2 main ways to draw out greenhouse gases at large scales: chemical pathways and biological pathways. The…

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