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The Ocean: Our Deep Blue Cornucopia |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Robert B. Abel |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,798 Words, 18,293 Characters |
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A profound lesson of the twentieth century is that human endeavors can significantly influence the apparently boundless waters that cover two-thirds of the planet. Until this century, the world's oceans could legitimately be regarded both as bottomless garbage dumps and as inexhaustible wellsprings of edible marine life. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, neither of these illusions can be sustained.
Modern societies are totally dependent on the oceans, but woefully ignorant of them. Let us survey the bounty of our deep blue cornucopia and threats to its many resources.
LIVING RESOURCES
About 10 years ago, the annual marine fish harvest reached approximately 75 million tons. It is highly unlikely that this figure will ever be exceeded in the wild because the fish c...
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...ment vary immensely, as the survival demands of still-growing populations easily prevail over efforts to regulate today's exploitation for the sake of a greater harvest tomorrow.
In the twentieth century, we demonstrated that humanity holds the power to destroy the oceans. Now, in the twenty-first century, we are challenged to redirect that power into nurturing and sustaining them.
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