What are your primary concerns about the oceans? What,
if anything, do you plan to do about it?
My
primary concerns are mostly drawn from the impact of overfishing and the
collapse of global fisheries. Seeing that a majority of people rely on the
oceans as a source of food and nourishment, the destruction caused by the
exploitation of natural resources seems to be of grave concern. Pollution in
the oceans and the impact from rising global temperatures are also alarming as
we do not currently know the extent and severity these factors have for life on
Earth.
I am
not sure what can be done to stop the destruction of the ocean that does not
require dramatic changes to the practices we currently implement as a society.
The least that can be done is to set up reserves for particularly vulnerable
places in the oceans, and draft laws that regulate global
fisheries. On an individual level, it might be necessary to raise these issues and have educated and rational discussions with people who might not be aware
of the environmental degradation caused by overfishing and pollution. It might
cause some people to evaluate what they are placing in themselves and the price
paid to provide it to them.
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