HOW I SEE THE OCEANS NOW

摘要

Oh, the turbulent seas! immense spinning gyres of plastic detritus; roiling tides of chemical pollutants; carbon dioxide acidifying the oceans; plummeting fish populations. I admit, it sounds a bit grim. But here's the simple truth: whatever we dump into the ocean stays in the ocean. A seemingly obvious concept, until you examine its implications. Throughout the entire stretch of human history, that sense of limitation never arose even as a flicker of a thought The sea, we believed, was nothing if not infinite in its bounty and mystery.