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The Bounty of the Sea
chaos, and disease on a scale almost
inland,
d, creating famine,
impossible to imagine.
5Meanwhile, the surface of the ocean would have scrummed over
by a film of decayed matter, and would no longer give water freely to the
skies through evaporation. Rain would become a rarity, creating global
drought and more famine.
6The wretched remnant of the human race would now be packed
on the remaining highlands, starving and struggling to survive. Then,
they would be visited by the final plague, anoxia (lack of oxygen). This
would be caused by the extinction of the plankton algae and the
reduction of land vegetation, the two sources that supply the oxygen you
are now breathing,
And so the man would finally die, slowly gasping out
his life on some barren hill. His heirs would be bacteria and a few
scavenger.
them sicken. Certain reefs that teemed with fish only ten years ago are
11 have observed and studied the oceans closely and I have seen
now almost lifeless. The ocean bottom has been raped by trawlers.
Priceless wetlands have been destroyed by landfill. And everywhere are
sticky globs of oil, plastic refuse, and unseen clouds of poisonous
effluents. Often when I describe the symptoms of the ocean's sickness, I
hear remarks like "they're only fish" or "they're only whales." But I
should die, this would signal not only the end of marine life but all other
assure you that our destinies are linked with theirs. For if the ocean
animals and plants of this earth, including man.
2The ocean would then become one enormous cesspool. Billions of
decaying bodies would create such a stench that man would be forced to
3 The ocean acts as the earth's buffer. It maintains a balance
between salts and gases which make life possible. But dead seas would
have no buffering effect. The carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere
would start on a steady climb, and when it reached a certain level, a
outward from the earth to space would be blocked by the carbon dioxide
"greenhouse effect” would be created. The heat that normally radiates
4One catastrophic effect of this heat would be the melting of the
icecaps at both the North and South Poles. As a result, the ocean would
rise by 100 feet or more, enough to flood almost all of the world's major
cities. These rising waters would drive one-third of the earth's billions
leave all the coastal regions.
and the sea level temperatures would increase.​

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