11 years.
That is all we would have left.
From there on out our days would be numbered.
The world would panic.
People would start getting dizzy, and slowly but surely we would all start feeling dizzy
and turning blue as they choked, gasping for air that simply wasn’t there.
Is there anything we could go to stop mass extinction?
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What if The Earth Was Going to run
out of Oxygen in 2030.
Blimey.
I think its another one of those “we all die” videos…
I don’t know though!
Lets see how long we can all last!
Before we get stuck into this video why don’t you guys let me know how long you can hold
your breath for… don’t like pass out watching this video or anything but let me know what
your personal best is in the comments section down below!
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SO I hate to break it to you right now, but actually, we are running out of oxygen, albeit
slowly.
Our atmosphere is leaking at 5 x 10 to the power of 25 molecules per second – at this
rate… it will be gone in billions of years!
We have actually lost a fair bit of oxygen since prehistoric times.
Its thought that before dinosaurs walked the earth, there was 30-35 percent oxygen in the
air – these days there is just 20.95% oxygen.
It may surprise some of you to hear that the earths air isn’t entirely oxygen already
– but it isn’t… in fact inhaling pure oxygen can kill you…we simply aren’t used
to it.
Humans need a minimum oxygen concentration of 19 and a half percent to stay healthy.
When oxygen concentrations drop from 19.5 to 16 percent, and you engage in physical
activity, your cells fail to receive the oxygen needed to function correctly.
Mental functions become impaired and respiration intermittent at oxygen concentrations that
drop from 10 to 14 percent; at these levels with any amount of physical activity, the
body becomes exhausted.
Humans simply can’t survive with levels at 6 percent or lower.
SO … if the Oxygen was set to run out in the year 2030 then we would need to take decisive
and preparatory action now.
Firstly, in an order to boost what dwindling oxygen we had left, we would PLANT LOADS of
trees and other flora and funa, as we know plant life undergoes photosynthesis and produces
oxygen.
We would also need to regulate how much oxygen was being used up in the burning of fuels
– oxygen allows fires to burn and they do so by using up oxygen.
Flights would be heavily restricted or grounded in an attempt to buy more time.
If we were going to get socially and ethically corrupt – perhaps governments would put
restraints on reproduction – humans breathe a lot of air 7 to 8 liters a minute, in fact
..…so … more humans means less of it in a depletion situation!
Maybe governments would start dismantling the dairy industry – as cows on mass are
a cause for increased carbon monoxide.
Perhaps governments would go even further and start killing off other animals in a bid
to buy more oxygen for humans, although as we know from a lot of these videos, messing
with the eco system is a terrible idea.
We could try and mine oxygen from the earth – afterall, if we look beyond oxygen as
a gas, it is one of the most abundant chemical elements on Earth.
About one-half of the earth's crust is made up of chemical compounds containing oxygen….
And then there is the ocean.
Right now hydrogen and oxygen can be separated by passing an electric current through water
and collecting the two gases as they bubble off – but this uses A LOT of electricity.
We would have 11 years to figure out how to do it, or die.
Another option would be to try and jettison off this planet and live elsewhere, a place
with oxygen… the issues being time and space – we don’t have enough equipment to get
everyone off earth, if we could, it would likely use up all our resources, including
our oxygen…and the next habitable planet is 12 light years away… and without the
ability to travel the speed of light, with our fastest rockets that would still take
us over 220 thousand years.
AND then we don’t really know what else the planet would have in store for us…other
than oxygen!
The best chance of the survival of the human race would be to pick small groups of humans
and send them out to different areas of space hoping they would find a way to survive…
a shot in the dark but maybe our only shot!
Say the time comes when the oxygen does run out…what then?
Well I the time leading up to depletion day there would be mass panic.
And panicking is just about the worst thing you can do for oxygen consumption…and … anything
else…anything get solved by panicking?
No!
Instead it would be advisable to save our breath…literally.
We could try holding our breaths for as long as possible to keep what we do have with us….
And then of course there would be the lucky souls who got their hands on all the supplies
of breathable air from airplanes, or hospitals… if I were them I would stay away from the
rest of the world’s folk who would literally kill for it.
Honestly, they’re living on a clock anyway….
The end result will be the same.
First to die out would be small animals – like hummingbirds… then the larger.
Humans would feel tired and lethargic… eventually the body would become exhausted and we would
pass out, later dying as our brains stopped functioning.
So…what would be left of the world?
Well without oxygen, there would be no life.
The world would be empty and bare and plant life would die out too.
The sky would become a lot darker – a lot like the sky towards the end of dusk.
This is because there would be fewer particles in the atmosphere to scatter the blue light
from the sun.
Buildings would crumble to ruin and without an atmosphere, eventually the oceans would
evaporate and the earth could be left looking somewhat like mars… but warmer.
If aliens finally came to visit they may be stricken as they wonder what on earth happened!
So… that is that.
No Oxygen and the end of humanity in just over a decade, that would really suck ! Don’t
worry though, it wont happen.
Not for a very very very long time, anyway.
However just because the oxygen is sticking around for a bit doesn’t mean our air quality
is great…we are still polluting the air at alarming rates and need to reconsider our
life choices….if we like breathing easy, anyway!
So that was that ! What do you think would happen?
How long can you hold your breath?
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Comments from What if we covered the Sahara in Solar Panels?
M Adams said: Right, and when some alien is looking at the Earth and gets blinded by the
glare and starts an Intergalactic War...
Benjamin Seelking said: We need Solarpanels on every Roof, which would skyrocket production,
therefore the Price would drop.
Combine it with small Windturbines and excess energy stored as Hydrogen under your House
and you can live of the Grid.
But, my Question for you is: What if Zordon of Eltar was real?
…. Then I shotgun pink powerranger!