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Sad Truths
-An empty beer can was the first thing Admiral R.J. Galanson saw on the
ocean floor when he descended half a mile beneath the Pacific in a Navy
deep-submersible craft.
-Billions of pounds of potentially harmful pollutants are dumped into the
world’s oceans yearly. The “New York Bight,” a 50,000 square kilometer area
along the New York-New Jersey coast and extending 190 kilometers seaward to
the edge of the continental shelf, was created by a municipal sewage
sludge-dumping policy. In one year, New York dumped so much sludge that if
the same sewage had been placed in the city’s 34,000 square meter Central
Park, it would have covered the park to a height of 8 feet!
-Environmental protection laws are nothing new. Since 1899 it has been a
crime to discharge industrial wastes into water under the U.S. Refuse Act.
-Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow voyagers tried not to dip their toothbrushes
in the water while drifting across the mid-Atlantic in 1971, so visibly
polluted was the water in mid-ocean. |
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