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Posted by 7masterheathen • 1/17/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: climate change, overfishing, pollution, world's oceans

I was watching a recent news video clip that was about how our world's oceans are rapidly being destroyed by overfishing, climate change and pollution.

Problem is... I didn't get to see all of it. Since then, I've really been digging into the subject. It really concerns me. It should concern all of us, in fact.

Here's an article that will get you thinking about the dangerous risk we are taking by not doing something about it.
scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=920

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1/17/09

pillownaut

I've seen articles about this and related topics in all the major science publications this past year... and I often wonder why it isn't a larger factor in discussions about climate change. or rather, the effects on the ocean ecosystems. This is definitely quite frightening, and we need to quit using the seas as garbage disposal sites

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1/17/09

7masterheathen

Yes, it is quite frightening and it really should be on all of are minds. More importantly, we need to take immediate action in helping to do something about it.

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1/17/09

Majase

Indeed so, Kelly.

I live right on the coast and it's a scary thing to think we are slowly killing the ocean habitats. Once that is gone, or gone past a certain stage of destruction, we are all screwed, royally.

I don't think many people realize how many environments, industries, food, and weather depends on a relatively healthy ocean.

Once it begins to die out on a massive scale, we are very close behind. All the surfers I know, myself included, seem to get more and more inner ear and skin "maladies" each year and I'm sure this has a lot more to do with the oceans dis-ease, than it does with our demented lifestyles.

Or that's what I'm saying it is at this point

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1/17/09

7masterheathen

I didn't know it was effecting surfers that way. I'm sure it is all the chemicals and pollution we indifferently throw into the oceans. I've read articles about how the fish are dying from all of our poison - that - and overfishing. Yeah, all the hairless monkeys on this planet don't get it. When we get done killing the oceans, we will actually be killing ourselves.

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1/17/09

HelloAnnie

In the days when the world is cleaner, everything we consume is basic...including shampoos, detergent, cleaning solutions, even clothes we wear have basic buttons not sparkles and glitter. Every material we use now has to come from some other raw minerals from earth....

It is not just throwing out garbage that need control. It is using the things that makes the garbage.

For instance: Why do need so much hair colouring solutions or hair spray to stay beautiful? And then only needing more shampoos to look after the damaged hair. Teenagers are constantly straightening and changing hair colour and styles....to look beautiful. In their bags, you will find, hair extensions, wigs, hairspray,....they bring the entire salon with them.

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1/17/09

SailboaterRob

Google - "ocean dead zone" and have a read...

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1. 1/18/09
  
  7masterheathen
  
  Thanks, SailboaterRob. I have read about that and it's really worth researching.
1/17/09

MadMadMargo

The dying reefs should be of great concern to all of us. Coral reefs face many threats. Some are natural stresses, such as hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, or plagues of coral-eating predators like the crown of thorns starfish, about which we can do little. These stresses usually are very episodic or irregular in both space and time, and really healthy reefs will recover from them over time. In a completely different category are the human caused stresses to reefs. These stresses are persistent and constantly intensifying.

Coral reefs cannot recover from such ever-present, worsening stresses. The end result of this human-impacted stress is that reefs now have trouble recovering from natural stresses (such as hurricanes) which they otherwise would be able to bounce back from. The causes, effects, and solutions to human-caused stresses are all well understood.

Source:http://www.globalcoral.org/why_are_coral_reefs_dying.htm

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1. 1/18/09
  
  7masterheathen
  
  Nice add. Thanks Me-Me. I'll check it out.
1/18/09

cooper

One of my readers, he used to have a blog of his own but life required he shut it down, is a marine biologist researcher PhD from Maine who met his soul-mate online and went out to Oregon swooped her up and moved to Hawaii where he currently does research at the university there - (that is just by way of letting you know how I know any of this) he would tell you it is the human stress put on the reefs is significant. He would also tell you in this country at least large research universities are willing to spend millions on their sports teams but not so much on marine or any type of bio research or advocacy. Our priorities are very strange.

Speaking of surfing their is a Save the Waves initiative
www.savethewaves.org/?gclid=COW2r624l5gCFQw9GgodZ1emmw
for those interested.

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1. 1/18/09
  
  7masterheathen
  
  Yeah, our priorities are screwed up. People don't understand the link between us and nature. Thanks for the link. I'll be checking that out, too.
1/18/09

siralmo

i love the fact that people are so uneducated

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