Shifting Baselines Blog: 11/9 - HELLO ... pardon us while we REPEAT our mention of this GRIM OCEAN article

November 08, 2005

11/9 - HELLO ... pardon us while we REPEAT our mention of this GRIM OCEAN article

Sorry, but this is the bottom line. It's what we started this whole Shifting Baselines project for three years ago. Yes, we know that it upsets a lot of people to know the truth and to not have an instant "solution to the problem." But we still figure that the only thing worse is to not know the truth. Dr. Jeremy Jackson and I spent two hours on the phone this evening discussing this article and the brave work that WWF has been doing in stating the cold, hard truth of how badly we are losing the environmental struggle.

This article in the New Scientist says it all. In 2002 the officials at the big South Africa World Parks Congress boldly, optimistically, and pretty much blindly called for at least 20% of the world's oceans to be protected by 2012. Its now almost 3 years since then. The current estimate is that about 0.5% is protected. And according to the article the open ocean is virtually out of control with illegal fishing running rampant and nations making bold proclamations with no actions to accompany the words.

It's bad. I'm not sure how it gets solved, but I know it has to begin with everyone at least knowing the basic facts that are in this article. And I get so tired of telling people that the ocean's supply of fish is limited and having them say, "Really?" in disbelief. It's definitely bad.

Between their State of the Planet Report for 2004 and these two recent ocean reports, WWF seems to be doing a really good job of stating the dire, plain truth about how bad things are looking for nature

Posted by Randy Olson at November 8, 2005 11:56 PM

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