The original article begs a question, “If lakes and river contribute as much as 25% of the release of carbon-sourced gasses into the atmosphere, how much of this release do the oceans contribute?”

Scientists believe that the oceans currently absorb 30-50% of the CO2 produced by the burning of fossil fuel. If they did not soak up any CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would be much higher than the current level of 355 parts per million by volume (ppmv) - probably around 500-600 ppmv.

Young people nowadays don't have anything to be afraid of other than terrorist, and the majority leaves it to the 1% anyway who actually do the fighting.
When I was growing up in the 50's we were aware that our parents, grand parents and family members participated and many died in WW1, WW2, Korea, and living under the fear of Vietnam which for myself and many was reality.
In 1960 everyone was told the world was coming to an end and it didn't, (duh!) and then we lived with the Cuban Missile crisis which was reality on steroids, and the cold war gave us plenty to chew or fingernails over.
Today the youth are being threatened by those who are wanting to cash in on a new and at times manufactured crisis around every turn.
Our youth live with all kinds of threats being fed them almost daily by the liberals who see the need to keep things stirred up in order to advance their twisted agenda.
If people, especially our youth would just study and learn history, they would find out they don't have it that bad!
I'm all for saving the planet and protecting the environment, but we need to step back, take a deep breath, and leave the petty PC stuff alone, and let some common sense and thought into their decision making, without letting someone else make their decisions for them.