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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
The new X-Prize is announced, and it is earth based this time. Mapping of the oceans. I'm hoping that interest in this project leads to interest in curtailing overfishing, blanket fishing, and ocean acidification. I have a strange feeling that, at the rate we are going, everyone is going to act stunned when ocean life becomes a fraction of a fraction of it's capacity, and a couple of billion people die as a direct (and indirect) result.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...Earth-s-oceans |
Who says it isn't a fraction of a fraction of it's original capacity already?
It's hard to see what's happening in the ocean when you can't, you know, see it very well.