The oceans are so vast and deep that until fairly recently, it was widely assumed that no matter how much trash and chemicals humans dumped into them, the effects would be negligible. Proponents of dumping in the oceans even had a catchphrase: The solution to pollution is dilution. Today, we need look no further than the New Jersey-size dead zone that forms each summer in the Mississippi River Delta, or the thousand-mile-wide swath of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to see that this dilution policy has helped place a once flourishing ocean ecosystem on the brink of collapse. ocean.nationalgeographic/ocean/critical-issues-marine-pollution/
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:40:07 +0000
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