Date published: 2006/06/16
The BBC says:
Urgent action is needed to protect the world's oceans from human exploitation, according to conservationists.
They say over-fishing, pollution and climate change are pushing marine areas to the point of no return.
The warning comes from the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) and World Conservation Union (IUCN).
In a report launched on Friday in New York, they are calling for new marine protected areas to be set up in deep seas and open oceans.
Yet another end-of-the-world report, and perhaps all true, but has there been any time in the last twenty or thirty years where the so-called conservationists haven't said the same thing? Of course if you repeat a scare story often enough then sooner or later some disaster you predict will come true. The fundamental problem (which most so-called environmentalists ignore) is that there are too many humans on the planet, and none of them are volunteering to leave. More seriously, there is the issue of policing marine reserves in open ocean. Are we going to get a UN navy or does the UN expect individual countries to take it upon themselves to police reserves as they see fit?
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