Join our cause... tell the manufactures to "Take It Back" ... tell
them "YOU made YOUR Chemicals", and YOU know best how to RECYCLE them...
not us!.. so STOP dumping YOUR byproducts into OUR Oceans NOW! and
take back what you have already dumped when it is returned to you by
the EPA or the Army Corp Of Engineers or whatever salvage company has
enough skills to safely transport it back to it's origin... http://EcoDelMar.org/TakeItBack
If this sounds "impossible"... think about it this way... if you
paint antique cars in your garage... could you legally and morally dump the old
paint thinners / cleaners down the drain?... of course not! So why are
manufacturers allowed to do this on a massive mega-tonnage scale...
They are killing our Oceans and Planet Earth and this has to stop.
Please sign the petition to tell the US Congress to stop allowing
profiteers to destroy our planet for their profit. Industrail toxic waste IS the cause of
widespread cancer and children with autism... if you truly want to
fight cancer... stop toxic industrial byproducts from getting into the water suppy, food chain, and the only living Oceans in the entire universe...
About 80 percent of all life on Earth lives in the ocean.
The Oceans create over half of the oxygen we breath and make this planet livable for us.
... Industrial pollution is diminishing the health of our oceans. According to a report done by Greenpeace International, the key threats people pose on the fate of our global oceans are: industrial fishing, deadly by-catch, unfair industrial fisheries, unsustainable aquacultures, industrial pollution, and global warming.
Greenpeace exposed a secret oil industry plan to organise fake rallies
against US climate legislation, and to exaggerate concern over the cost
of action on climate change. The plan, stated in a leaked internal memo from the API (American Petroleum Institute)
shows that they are reverting back to old tricks - spreading
misinformation about climate change and pressing politicians towards
inaction.
While Shell Oil have said they won’t participate in this plan - they
still give money to the API which continues to lobby the US Government
using deceptive tactics.
Climate protection policy is needed urgently. Politicians should
listen to climate scientists and the people - not big corporations with
vested interests. The API is threatening our future, and our children’s
future with their lies.
We need you to tell the oil industry to come clean and support real climate action.
The following letter will be sent to the CEOs of: BHP Billiton,
BP, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon, General Electric, Halliburton, Shell and
Petrobras.
The Greenpeace Defending our Oceans campaign sets out to protect and preserve our oceans now and for the future by setting aside swathes of the global oceans from exploitation and controllable human pressure, allowing these areas the respite they so desperately need for recovery.
Philippe Cousteau, is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau
Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of
the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father and
grandfather through EarthEcho International, the non-profit
organization he founded with his sister and mother and of which he
serves as CEO.
Philippe serves on the Board of Directors of The Ocean Conservancy,
Marine Conservation Biology Institute, and the National Environmental
Education Foundation, as well as the Advisory Board of Discovery
Communications Inc.'s Planet Green and is a member of the Smithsonian
Institution's Ocean Initiative Council.
Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the
primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname "the other carbon
problem." As they do so, the oceans become more acidic with terrible
consequences.
Who cares you might ask? Well, we all should because simply put, ocean
acidification could spell the end of oceans as we know them. Since
oceans are the life support system of our planet, regulating the
climate, providing most of our oxygen and feeding over a billion
people; what's bad for oceans is bad for us, very bad.
I wrote earlier that the last 50 yrs have seen the greatest amount
of damage to our environment. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is the
next 50 that will define the course of human history and decide our
fate. If we are to build the just and sustainable world we all dream of
we must act now. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "we
have no time for the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." The next 50,
those are our years and we have the power to change course, to stop our
abuse of this planet, to fight for clean energy, healthy food, and the
protection and restoration of nature. Only then will we be able to pass
on to our children the hope of a better world. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philippe-cousteau
Special thanks to Elliott Norse, John Guinotte and Lance
Morgan of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) for their
support and research.
Learn more all month long as my sister Alexandra and I
co-host the exciting programming event BLUE AUGUST on Planet Green
Channel which includes a special world premiere of the documentary Acid
Test, hosted by Sigourney Weaver who explores ocean acidification and
what can be done about it at 10:30PM ET/PT on August 12. To learn more
about BLUE AUGUST,
Pacific Gyre (blog)
(Blog entry) Blog Post by: Larry to: SeaplexScience.com: i just want to say that i love reading your blogs... and a BIG thank you! :-)... to all you energetic salty scientists! :-) for the contributions you are making to the future of this planet... believe it or not... i actually think the issues related to micro plastic particles in the oceans... and it's transporting of PCBs into the food chain... are a more acute global crisis than global warming... now if you guys and gals can just get the plastic and POPs problems solved before landfall... we can all take time off for a veggie pizza and then get to work solving the melting polar caps and CO2 induced acid oceans... and oh yea... we need several trillion more fish in the sea :-) Larry @ http://EcoDelMar.org
Pacific Gyre (blog)
(Blog entry) Blog Post by: Larry to: SeaplexScience.com: While measuring the breadth and depth of the gyre is a popular objective, it may not provide significantly useful information towards a solution... since the plastic micro particles are not only in the Pacific Gyre... suspended particles will "concentrate" in any gyre... similar to sunlight being everywhere, and "concentrated" by a convex lens... particles suspended in Earth's Oceans simply "concentrate" in the Pacific vortex... making them more available for observation... the plastic bits are global... carried by the ocean's conveyor belt currents... plastic "splits" into smaller and smaller bits... down to micro dust size particles... now detected worldwide in beach sands.. and most of it sinks below the surface, ref: EcoDelMar.org/7030 ... however it is still "plastic"... and it takes 400-800 years to bio-degrade... while it continues to split all the way to dust sized plastic mixed in a sea water soup... which might explain the loss of "gin clear" water divers recall from 40 years ago... and why coral polyps are loosing their immune system strength as they consume plankton size bits of plastic... laden with PCBs.. and other non bio-degrading persistent organic pollutants (POPs) also carried globally in the conveyor belt currents... entering the food chain through Lantern fish, daily... clearly, more research is urgently needed...
The bio-magnification of millions of tons of industrial toxins into Earth's food chain for many generations to come... is the real issue here...
The fact that plastic will "sponge" industrial toxins... day by day... for 400 to 800 years and continue passing it into the food chain is nothing less than a nightmare.
Finally... 50 years too late... we understand why the dolphins and whales are beaching themselves to die at our feet... EcoDelMar.org/why
Larry --just another boat captain & scuba diver volunteer for coral reef restoration in Key Largo.
Mother Mother Ocean... I have heard your call... /:-) EcoDelMar.org/gyre
Philippe Cousteau, is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau
Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of
the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father and
grandfather through EarthEcho International, the non-profit
organization he founded with his sister and mother and of which he
serves as CEO.
Philippe serves on the Board of Directors of The Ocean Conservancy,
Marine Conservation Biology Institute, and the National Environmental
Education Foundation, as well as the Advisory Board of Discovery
Communications Inc.'s Planet Green and is a member of the Smithsonian
Institution's Ocean Initiative Council. 
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