“Unlocking the Green Puzzle: How Photosynthesis Powers Earth’s Survival and Secrets”
Take Mars, for example, has 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, and 0.13% oxygen. Such environments make it impossible for human life to exist on these sister planets. However, according to scientists such as Professor Gregory Shmidt, photosynthesis made Earth habitable by smuggling carbon from the atmosphere and sending it to the crust. This happened over billions of years.
Schmidt argues that Earth’s atmosphere was no different than Mars. However, when chlorophyll-producing bacteria started synthesizing food and releasing oxygen, an oxidation evolution occurred and started fueling new life. Land plants were born, which ushered in animal life.
What Would Happen If Photosynthesis Failed
Have you ever wondered what would happen if there was no photosynthesis? Would life on Earth come to an end? Absolutely! However, it wouldn’t happen overnight.
The first casualty when photosynthesis stops working would be plants. Most of them would die within days because, without food, they can’t survive. Bigger plants, such as trees, would survive for a few weeks because they store more food.
When all plants die, herbivores will follow. Omnivores would be last on this list. Food isn’t the only thing that would become scarce; oxygen would, too. As the levels of oxygen decrease, humans and other living organisms would suffocate to death.
What Would It Take for Photosynthesis to Stop?
For photosynthesis to stop, that would mean the sun would have disappeared. On its own, this would bring lots of other problems. For instance, the temperatures would drop drastically and very few organisms would survive. Without the sun’s protection, cosmic radiation would wipe out the entire planet.
