Hello to all the plankton, redfish, fishinbetween, dolphins, sharks, whales and orcas, we are celebrating World Oceans Day, cause we all share one ocean and you can be part of it here in the hive waters of the blockchain.
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On the 8th of June every year, the world celebrates World Oceans Day. This great initiative Started by the Canadians in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. In 2004, a 4 year petition was launched on the United Nations by the World Ocean Network & The Ocean Project, to officially celebrate 8th June as World Oceans Day. In 2008 the day was designated as the day for the oceans by the United Nations. If you go to the site of the UN you will see all that’s happening and all the orginations that participate to make our world a better one. Unesco is a leader in this new decade to ocean change. Ocean change is just as important as world health or world hunger. `Essential to a great and prosperous future for our kids and their kids.
Source : United Nations website
For 2020 World Oceans Day is growing the global movement to call on world leaders to protect 30% of our blue planet by 2030. Only 30% but its a start, and we have to do that the next 10 years. By safeguarding at least 30% of our ocean through a network of highly protected areas we can help ensure a healthy home for all! But also for ourselves. We all have been to the beach, I have been there yesterday and we all see plastic where its not supposed to be.
For the United Nations World Oceans Day virtual event in celebration of the 2020 theme, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean a lot of famous people are going to be speaking about the seas and oceans and directly to us by social media streams with speeches that might change all our lives.
All in partnership with the non-profit organization Oceanic Global.
UN World Oceans Day 2020 will be a day-long event featuring keynote speeches, panels, and presentations with leading ocean voices including:
Jean Michel Cousteau, ( ever seen his beautiful documentaries? ) Cara Delevingne and Ellie Goulding, for more infor go to : Unworldoceansday.org
When we think of public health risks, we may not think of the ocean. Increasingly, however, the health of the ocean is intimately tied to our health. Some may be surprised to read that organisms discovered at extreme depths are used to speed up the detection of COVID-19, and probably even more to learn that, it is the environment that could give a solution to humankind.
This is one of the multiple reasons why we should celebrate World Oceans Day: to remind everyone of the major role the oceans have in everyday life. They are the lungs of our planet, providing most of the oxygen we breathe. The purpose of the Day is to inform the public of the impact of human actions on the ocean, develop a worldwide movement of citizens for the ocean, and mobilize and unite the world’s population on a project for the sustainable management of the world's oceans. They are a major source of food and medicine and a critical part of the biosphere. In the end, it is a day to celebrate together the beauty, the wealth and the promise of the ocean.Source is the UN World Oceans Day website and all the pledges and events happening this year all over the world.
Oceans serve as the world’s largest source of protein, with more than 3 billion people depending on the oceans as their primary source of protein, or water consume?
Over three billion people depend on marine and coastal biodiversity for their livelihoods! `Like the fisherman we all know from the holiday brochures, but its their daily meal.
Oceans absorb about 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming. Thats a huge climate change positive but needs to be at least 20% more if you ask me.
Oceans feed us, regulate our climate, and generate most of the oxygen we breathe. But despite their importance, oceans are facing unprecedented threats as a result of human activity. Oceans also take lives, like my friend last week, who lost her son to the ocean when her son was in a boating accident, or the man that was taken by a shark in Australia yesterday while surfing.
In 2018 World Oceans Day aimed to focus attention on the scourge of plastic pollution in our oceans. That was the launch from Dutchie Boyan Slat (27 July 1994) is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a Dutch foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world’s oceans of plastic.
Age 18, Boyan devised a concept which utilises the natural oceanic forces to passively catch and concentrate ocean plastic, through which the theoretical cleanup time could be reduced from millennia to mere years. In February 2013 he dropped out of his Aerospace Engineering study at TU Delft to start The Ocean Cleanup.
As The Ocean Cleanup’s CEO, Boyan currently gives lead to a team of about 80 people, but spends most of his time on research and engineering, through which he co-authored about a dozen scientific papers and multiple patents. After 4 years of reconnaissance expeditions, testing and many design iterations, on September 8 2018 the world’s first ocean cleanup system was launched from San Francisco, soon after followed by deployment inside the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
We went to the beach yesterday and I always carry a plastic bag for waste, also one fro the poop of the dogs and one for shells that the boys collect. As we see something we put it in the bag and throw it away at the end of the day, its a little thing but all little things help.
These are photos of mine made yesterday when we were on the beach, in Kijkduin, The Hague, Holland. To be viewed in a travelfeed.io blog by me the link is here
https://peakd.com/hive-184437/@brittandjosie/kijkduin-scheveningen-holland
As a last advice try to see what is happening eventhough you are not capable of changing the intire problem the slightest little change is a change and if we all did that that will be that massive snowball we need. Nobody likes these kinds of picture :
Ander the dutch sign with the most plastic found, its easy, be aware!
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Date : 8th June 2020
I like the sea. I went there on Sunday. I donate to clean the sea and sometimes volunteer my time. I noticed how disgusting it was when I started scuba diving.
Me to when I graduated we always had a mesh bag with us to collect plastic or waste we saw. And 20 years ago that was under 5 meters now its even deeper when you see sunken bags and plastic remains its awful. That dutchie tried but failed, he is gonna try again hopefully he will succeed but we and our kids got a long way to go
Happy World Ocean Day!
The sea is always calling me and it became my duty to keep the beaches and waters clean, long ago. The damage that we do is appalling. If every person took one moment, what a cleaner, better place this would be.
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If every person took a bag and picked up what didnt belong that would be super, but its also education, hard images need to do the trick
Education, but, also, this is one of the things a person can do as a parent. I don't wait for the hard images to scare me, I try to educate my own kids so that they will grow up to be responsible and care.
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Happy world ocean day my friend :)
I hope humanity would wake up soon and see the reality of how bad our influence on our planet is
He hazem long time... yes i hope so to, but its hard in our world society, its so much everywhere that we will have to do our part all , and than if we could go without i dont know but we can sure try
Thanks for this post, as someone who has lived and worked in and around the ocean for a long time I have seen many sad sights of pollution and harm to wildlife.
Currently I am living in the Philippines which ranks third in the ocean polluting nations chart, a awful stat for a country relying on beach based tourism.
Our dive centre considers every day ocean day and do everything we can to keep on top of the problem but beach and reef cleans are the tip of the iceberg here and a major cultural change is the only way to have a true effect.
Sadly most people here see rivers and the ocean as a convenient place to dispose of waste, through education the younger generation are starting to understand they are killing their future, we can but hope that message finally gets through and we see a culture shift.
So true people dont see it as an living environment they see it as a waste belt , it has to change and we have to educate from young age. Animal cruelty but also our own future. I hate the picture available and also in my blog, we need plastic but god i love to go without if possible
We certainly have a long way to go, I think a lot of answers are in recent history, as a kid in the 70's most packaging was paper plastic took over often to extend product life, so a step back could change things but for sure education is the answer.
But i heard that event with the education and we all taking responsibility it will be a hard and difficult task and it will take a lot of time aswell i mean 20 years or so. So we better begin
Truth is 20 years is optimistic, it's not just what we can see it's the microscopic toxins that will be around for centuries. I was doing some work with a government agency here DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources taking water samples for micro plastic testing which is a major world issue and we can't even see this pollutant unless we use a microscope.