Winter 2022
Why saving our coastlines is crucial to saving the ocean—and the planet.
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It’s not enough to slow emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; we must also remove some of what’s already there..
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In January 1790, a ship named The Bounty landed on a small speck of land jutting out of the Pacific Ocean. The uninhabited island, barely 2 miles long and 1 mile wide, would remain home to the crew and their subsequent generations until this very day. The fact that The Bounty dropped anchor in such a small and desolate place was no accident—its isolation was its attraction. The crew were mutineers and they never wanted to be found.
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Our ocean—all 140 million square miles of it—has a plastic pollution problem. This is the case in places where one might expect it—from the waters lapping at megacities to the world’s most polluted river deltas—but also in areas that might surprise people, such as the deepest trenches in the sea and the world’s most remote coastlines.
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The consequences of our taking resources from the sea were once limited to local scales. Today, exploitation, depletion, and loss affect us all.
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