{"id":3728,"date":"2011-08-08T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T01:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2011-07-22T22:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:23:02","slug":"year-2-month-8-day-8-heres-hoping-my-kid-likes-to-eat-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-8-day-8-heres-hoping-my-kid-likes-to-eat-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 8, Day 8: Here&#8217;s Hoping My Kid Likes To Eat Jellyfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a good editorial on a terrifying subject.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/editorials\/articles\/2011\/07\/20\/high_risks_on_the_high_seas\/\">The threatened oceans:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>THE WORLD\u2019S oceans provide a crucial environmental safety valve: The blue territory that covers 70 percent of the globe absorbs 80 percent of the heat we are adding to our climate, and about a third of carbon dioxide we are emitting into the atmosphere. A recent report by the International Program on the State of the Ocean, however, has found that the oceans may not be able to sustain these burdens much longer.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights a combination of factors that put us at high risk for, as the report puts it, \u201centering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history.\u2019\u2019 The combined effects of overfishing, marine pollution, and carbon emissions are responsible for this basic fact: Our oceans are degenerating far more quickly than previously predicted. This has consequences not just for marine ecosystems and species, but also for humans.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sent July 22, gloomily:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Considering that we lived in close interaction with the natural world for countless thousands of years, modern homo sapiens shows a disturbing level of ignorance of the environmental systems of which it is a part.  The possibility that the planet&#8217;s oceans are entering a death spiral barely seems to be registering on most people&#8217;s radar; instead, we are preoccupied with gossip, trivialities, and short-term threats to our comfort.  Attention, everyone!  A collapse of oceanic ecosystems would not just be a temporary inconvenience, but a world-changing event of a magnitude far beyond our ken!  Between oceanic acidification, overfishing, and pollution, we humans have inflicted enormous damage on the seas; if we don&#8217;t change our ways voluntarily, we will be forced to change them whether we like it or not.  With a civilization struggling in the aftermath of catastrophic ecological implosions, we will have no alternative but to adapt or die.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a good editorial on a terrifying subject. The threatened oceans: THE WORLD\u2019S oceans provide a crucial environmental safety valve: The blue territory that covers 70 percent of the globe absorbs 80 percent of the heat we are adding to our climate, and about a third of carbon dioxide we are emitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[928,286,927,844],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-jacques-cousteau","tag-oceanic-acidification","tag-oceans","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}