Factoid/2011/12/12
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We Continue to Plunder Our Ocean Resources
- "As late as the 19th century the oceans were widely believed to be inexhaustible. The fact is that by then a small fraction of their original abundance remained. More and more fishers, with more and more deadly gear, were progressively sweeping the oceans clean. This tragedy of the commons, where only self-restraint can curb over-exploitation of a globally shared bounty, has continued apace to the present." - excerpt from review of the book An Unnatural History of the Sea.
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