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WHAT IF ?

Vatsala Jha
Balaji Law College Pune

© What if All The Earth's Oceans Evaporated?
© What if all the oceans disappeared from the earth's surface?
© What would this World look like? What would happen to the underwater creatures?
© Could we survive without oceans ??

n the early years of our planet, the earth was flat but not in a way we think. The earth just didn't have any mountains
and was mostly covered with water. Then about a billions years ago land emerged from under the sea and changed
Ithe planet's atmosphere. This led to the debut of the first life forms here on earth.
Eventually, the planet will heat up and all the oceans will vanish. This is not scheduled to happen for another billion years.
But how bad it would be if all the oceans evaporated right now? Today, oceans cover about 70% of the earth surface. If
you put all that water into olympic size swimming pools, You'd need over 500 trillions of them. With all the oceans
gone, We'd still have some water available. Oceans accounts for 97% of all the water on the planet. The remaining 3%
us held in river, lakes, underground water even the ice-caps. But that would not be enough to make up for the loss of
oceans. The World oceans act as a glov1 climate control system. They absorb most of the sun's heat and distribute it
evenly around the planet,so that no one area gets too hot or too cold.They also sustain the water cycle, evaporating into
clouds and then raining back to earth. But You won't need to keep your umbrella at hand, expecting a big storm once all
the oceans are evaporated. In our scenario, the Earth wouldn't be able to keep all that vapour in the atmosphere. Oceans
would leave our planet for good, turning it into vast scorching desert. Sea creatures would be the obvious first casualties
in these conditions.Then with no oceans to absorb the heat from the Sun, the Earth would slowly roast until it turned into
Venus. How long would we have until our planet became uninhabitable? Well whatever water was left would
evaporate in a matter of days, leaving humanity to die from dehydration.Most animal would go extinct without water.
Who knows, may be camels would become Earth's next civilization? After a few days,planet would give up their attempts
to survive without water and after a few weeks, the same would happen to our forests.Eventually they would catch fire
and would keep burning until their was no vegetation left.In about a years time,the earth would turn into a burnt and
lifeless rock. And without water,it probably wouldn't get the chance to produce life ever again. May be one day, another
life form my visit our solar system, and wonder what happened to our once glorious planet But that's a story for another
WHAT IF.

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