February 10, 2012

TeD Talk: How We Wrecked The Ocean

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You can't live in Newfoundland without thinking about overfishing. In this TED video the truth about it is driven home - it's bad news. Coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the state of the ocean today: overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and ocean warming have fundamentally changed marine ecosystems and led to "the rise of slime," and it'll only get worse. For example: a … [Read more...]