Human activity has put the world’s oceans in danger, according to the Global Ocean Commission, a group of 18 former politicians and heads of international agencies who’ve called for a five-year “rescue package” for the 64% of oceans that lie outside national jurisdiction. “In the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Globe and Mail, the commissioners say human beings rely on the oceans for clean air, climate stability, rain and fresh water, transport, energy, food, and livelihoods,” Galloway reports. “But overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction, acidification, and other human activities are pushing the ocean system to the point of collapse, they say.”
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