World Oceans Day

Posted by admin on June 8, 2009

Today is World Ocean’s Day you can read about The Ocean Project in full here.

Some excerpts:
Created in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro - although not yet officially designated by the United Nations - World Oceans Day is an opportunity each year to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to the sea.

Why Should I Care About the Ocean?

The world’s ocean:

Generates most of the oxygen we breathe;

Helps feed us;

Regulates our climate;

Cleans the water we drink;

Offers us a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines; and

Provides limitless inspiration!

Yet for too long, human society has:

Treated the ocean as a garbage dump;

Decimated fish populations;

Destroyed critical habitat;

Interrupted the fundamental reproductive capacity of life in the ocean; and

Taken the world’s ocean for granted.