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Getting the Ocean's health into perspective.
As scientist Jim Lovelock observed, "Although the weight of the Oceans is 250 times that of the atmosphere, it is only one part in 4,000 of the weight of the Earth."
1/4000 = 0.00025
Therefore, only 0.025 % of Earth's mass is Water. Yet we tend to think of our Oceans as vast and an endless resource, free to everyone.
Scientists also point out, "If the Earth were a globe 12 inches in diameter, the average depth of the ocean would be no more than the thickness of a piece of paper, and even the Deepest Ocean Trench would only be a tiny dent, one third of a millimeter deep. (0.3 mm = 0.01 in)
Since the Ocean's mass is 0.025% that of Earth's, our Oceans can be appreciated as the scarce and only living Oceans in the entire universe. Mars might have some frozen mud.
Knowing the Earth's "surface" is 70.8% water, often leads the public to jump to a popular conclusion... there might be more Ocean than Earth.
Unfortunately, this popular conclusion leads to a "global assumption"... that pollution might be absorbed and simply rendered harmless... within the Ocean's vastness.
Millions of Tons of toxic chemicals are discarded into rivers worldwide, while the industry leaders "cross their fingers" in a futile false hope that the chemicals will quietly be absorbed by the living Oceans.
Plastic does not really "break down", but it does break into tiny bits of plastic "dust". PCB's, already in the Ocean, are attracted to the plastic bits like a magnetic sponge. Marine animals eat the plastic bits, and become toxic with PCB's, causing immune system failure.
As the toxins slowly distribute worldwide by the Ocean's conveyor belt currents, the entire food chain is affected, from the tiny coral polyps that make world's largest reefs, to whales feeding on plankton and other particles suspended in the water column, including PCB laden plastic "dust".
An impairment to the immune systems of living creatures is being observed globally, from the tiny coral polyps, to the giant killer whales, and finally the humans themselves, seated at the top of the food chain, consuming the industrial leftovers, that do not bio-degrade in nature for hundreds of years.
Now PCB's are being dumped onto agricultural land or incinerated into the atmosphere by industry in another futile attempt to rid themselves of chemicals they synthesized and are responsible for. I say the manufacture must not be allowed to dump these toxic chemicals in the rivers and must take them back for recycling: http://ecodelmar.org/TakeItBack/
While we are still scrambling to name the new coral reef diseases, and counting growing number of species that are becoming extinct, all the while with more funding going to concern over the stock market.
As a free nation... we the people... spent more of our own tax dollars exploring the mud on Mars than protecting the only "Living Oceans" in the known universe... as our planet become less inhabitable for humans. Who is really steering this over-heating planet, big business persons? Is bowing to the stock market index given a higher priority than the World's Ocean Health index, in Washington... http://ecodelmar.org/MBA_blindness
As we all awaken to the collapse of our Oceans, finally we begin to see the consequences of giving the "green light" to industry for dumping millions of tons of "known toxins" into the only known living Oceans in the entire universe.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, must be looking down on the Oceans and their bleached coral reefs... with salty tears in his eyes. Link to The Cousteau Team results: http://EcoDelMar.org/results
Our Oceans
We have the only living Oceans in the entire universe, unless you know of another one.
Our planet is running full-steam-ahead by giant industrial strength polluters.
Industrial pollution is impairing the immune system of life in the Oceans.
Tons of toxic chemicals are still being dumped into rivers worldwide by industrial giants, who will destroy the Oceans, in order to make more profit.
home page:
http://EcoDelMar.org
Info about PCBs:
http://EcoDelMar.org/pcb
Cousteau Team results
http://EcoDelMar.org/results
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about me:
http://EcoDelMar.org/maya
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