As we know human activity creates CO2 and puts it into our atmosphere. When the CO2 is dispersed 30%-40% of it is put into our ocean the rest either ends up staying in the atmosphere or on land helping plants or something. All that carbon dioxide creates the oceans acidity to rise. The CO2 in the water reacts with the water (H20) creating carbonic acid. If you look at the equation below, the process of all this makes it so all the hydrogen ions are freed and are left floating around which is what causes the acidity to rise. And this is pretty normal for the acidity to rise but the rate that its changing is much faster than anything that we've seen in a long time. And when the pH is lowering its causing coral to be destroyed and its disturbing animal life such as fish and crustaceans. So I believe that If we stop using so many fossil fuels and that if we try our best to not drive or waste electricity we can slow down this process of destroying our oceans.
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