When I’m in town, one of my regular walks is along a vast stretch of water front that reports from about 100 years ago show that the area was overwhelmed with shellfish along the shorelines and sea life just off shore. In the day one only needed to walk the beach to pick up enough food for a life time.

Now, all one sees are a few broken shells.

While there are still fish to be harvested, in a generation I shudder to think of what the oceans will become. We’ve pretty much mortally wounded the ocean, and things such as low oxygen zones, thousands of plastic bags per mile, and endless rivers of filth being pumped into the ocean every day show no signs of ever letting up. People are too often very bad conservationist.