Cross-posted from TheReefTank.com
The world pressures of over-fishing and pollution are already a major threat to sea life. Throw climate change into the mix and we’re reading into a whole deeper story.
With oceans covering the majority of our planet, you’d think there would be more attention garnered towards the deep blue mass of beauty that always lies just beyond.
It’s comforting, in a way, to know that we understand so very little about what thrives beneath the ocean’s surface. Science has taken us very far, but the ocean remains a world much larger than our own, that reaches places to which our imaginations can’t yet fathom.
And yet, the impact of us living on this planet is unintentionally having an incredibly significant impact on ocean life. There are three major climate change shifts that the World Conservation Monitoring Centre points to when it comes to ocean life, as explained in the book Global Warming for Dummies:
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The recent conference in Indonesia may make a difference to events at Copenhagen. I wonder if it may be worth asking your readers to contact their minister and ask them to put pressure on the next Copenhagen summit to consider OCEANS as well as CO2 filled skies?
It was actually the carbonic acid data on the oceans (including the bleaching of coral reefs) that convinced me the carbon issue was real. We need to have a greater awareness of how our oceans are affected.
Good point, goodgreenliving. In the original post (at http://www.thereeftank.com/blog/water-world/ ) In noted a suggestion to write to representatives, but – you’re right – I think a deeper level of consideration is needed regarding our oceans.
R Margolis – That’s very interesting. It’s certainly one of the less talked about issues of climate change, despite it actually being quite a massive one.
Thank you both for reading.
I recently came across a site for Christopher Swain–he is an Environmental hero in my book. He swims in dirty water to promote clean water! Check it out: changents.com/earthkeepers