Ecological Sustainability

257Mitigations of Human Impacts through Technology

proliferating vegetation and marine algae. However, we know that marine

phytoplankton blooms have untoward side effects: when an algae bloom

dies, the bacteria feeding on the decomposing phytoplankton cells rob the

water of O

2

, depleting zooplankton populations needed for healthy ocean

ecosystems; they also release the toxic gas H

2

S, which poisons zooplanktons

and sh. (4) If the United States and Western Europe do CCS, and develop-

ing, CO

2

-emitting countries (e.g., Brazil, Russia, India, and China) consider

CCS systems too expensive, we will have “plowed the waters.” Note that

the Heinz Center (2010) report stated: “Currently, however, CCS develop-

ment is not a priority ...