While far from exhaustive, this chart helps to demonstrate the increase in embodied resources sourced for modern warfare.
Prior to the age of industrial warfare, examining carbon and material flows during times of conflict begin to reveal the relationship between increased wartime production and viable coral habitat.
The historic flow of materials throughout the Great Lakes region of North America begins to trace the geologic history of coral habitation.
A look at viable coral habitat in the age of pre-industrial warfare.
An increasing reliance on dense embodiments of carbon have the twofold effect of straining limestone reserves, while contributing heavily to an altered habitat that puts coral reefs, major producers of oceanic limestone reserves, at risk of extinction.
The proposed intervention would use embodied sources of carbon and limestone from prior conflicts (retired battleships) to create an ideal environment for coral cultivation while providing intermittent opportunities for aquatic farming and carbon sequestration.
A sample timeline of kelp farming and initial vessel retirement.
Continued timeline of warship retirement and prolonged ecological succession and habitat renewal.