GOOD’s Water Issue
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We just received an advanced copy of GOOD magazine‘s summer 2009 issue – The Water Issue – in our office. It is a great compilation of articles and graphics on all the many topics related to water, from the lack of access to clean water to business of dams to overfishing to war.
TED Prize winner Sylvia Earle has an article entitled “Hope Floats” detailing the urgent need for humans to protect our ocean ecosystems by establishing more marine protected areas (MPAs) or as Sylvia calls them, “hope spots“. As she states in her article, and her TED Prize talk, only 1% of the ocean is currently protected. That is certainly not enough.
There is time, but not a lot, to secure overarching policies nd a major network of protected places in the water of various nations as well aas in the high seas…One way or another, all of the ocean needs to be cared for as if our lives depend on it, because, well, they do.
Pick up a copy today. And for more on Sylvia’s wish to help ignite support for more hope spots click here.
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I viewed what you had to say about contacted all the leaders of the world, Personally I would say contacting Gordon Brown a waste of time and effort, this is the man that cares very little about human life, when he puts the price of the almighty pound before giving the troops of the country second rate equipment, or not equipment at all, I have been, for a great number of years trying to stop Gordon Brown from dumping Nuclear Waste into our local river, and out into the English Channel, and have had no response except for the Government not to decreasing but increasing the amount of Nuclear Waste by 700 percent in fluids and 400 percent in gases, I took this action up against our government through the courts and asked for support from the branch of the BSAC that I belonged to at the Time ( Plymouth Sound Branch 1640 ) and all I got from them was Sarcasm and put down, I could not understand this so decided to leave the BSAC if that is the type of response I get, I do not know what views you have on the fact of the actions taken by Government in the dumping of nuclear waste into our Oceans by the Governments, I do not know exactly how many places there are totally around the UK, but starting from the Western approaches and going around the UK, I know of at least 7 places that dumps waste under UK Government License through the so called Environment Agency the name is a Joke in itself, as these people issue licenses to dump toxic and Nuclear waste into our Oceans, once upon a time they use to take it out in barrels and dump it over the side, out in the Atlantic Ocean, now they just dump it under license into their local waters into the Oceans, it’s like the operations by Japan and taking up whaling again, under the pretext of experiments, again another Government full of Bull, if this country wanted to do Experiments on whales, then let them do it on the whales that beach themselves, there’s enough of them, and then you have the slaughter of the dolphins on the beaches in Japan, it’s barbaric, personally I know what I would like to do to them but that’s Illegal, unlike the slaughter of the Dolphins.