{"id":2363,"date":"2013-11-10T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ploff.net\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2013-11-12T02:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:10:55","slug":"ba-131-el-oceano-esta-roto-y-una-justificacion-mas-para-activar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ploff.net\/en\/ba-131-el-oceano-esta-roto-y-una-justificacion-mas-para-activar\/","title":{"rendered":"BA 131 – The ocean is broken and another reason to activate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ocean is broken and one more reason to activate<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Today I bring you a story, a voice, I bring you the experience of an english fisherman, Ivan Macfadyen, who when returning from his usual trip from Melbourne to Osaka through different oceans of the world, desolated, sat down, sighed, and said: the ocean is broken<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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We talked about it sometime in an awareness newsletter of january 2012<\/a>, the ocean is wounded. <\/i>It’s a breeding ground for nothing, there’s no life, there’s trash, giant islets of trash…<\/p>\n

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During a period of his journey, Ivan sailed a long way listening ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, due to lack of birds, lack of fish… lack of life.<\/p>\n

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In another trip he saw in the horizon a row of great fishing ships… from one of them a speedboat sailed towards them and offered them fish as a gift. They were giving them away because they had tons of them and they were going to tip them overboard, millions of fish, of different species, thrown to the bottom of the ocean, just because they were only <\/i>looking for tuna…and they threw everything else<\/b> into the sea as trash.<\/p>\n

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In another part of the journey, they were sailing alone for 3000 nautical miles, where the only being they saw was a whale, with a sort of totally abnormal tumor coming out of its body, a strange whale, battered<\/i> for not being part of an original population of cetaceans anymore, to be an alienated tenant of the ocean<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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They even came across with garbage transported from the tsunami in Japan; moment of absolute fear in their journey, as just a little bit of plastic stuck in the propeller and you are done… you’re stuck in the middle of the biospheric cemetery. Even the paint on the hull began to corrode itself… the water, everything was dead.<\/p>\n

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This testimony is only an evidence, a vision of the sorrow that the ocean has nowadays. The environmental damages that cause the loss of life in the oceans are tremdously giant, so big that they still haven’t been analized as they should be by our decision makers. How does the LACK of ocean life affect our productive activities and our mental health (What about our social llife without nature?)<\/p>\n

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You might remember that, several times, we mentioned matters about environmental law, legislation, and that world that only seems to belong to lawyers and judges, but NO!<\/b>, these are easy and accessible tools to make ourselves heard and to defend the planet.<\/p>\n

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