Continuing where he left off with his critically acclaimed book A View From Lazy Point, Carl Safina, founder of Blue Ocean Institute at Stony Brook University, asked a rapt audience at the Institute's annual gala last night to merge knowledge and commitment to stabilize a rapidly overheating planet and a changing ocean.
"If science can't make biodiversity sufficiently sexy, and religion won't step up to love this blue planet, what's left? I propose a merger, but we can't expect scientists or religious people to do the merging...It is up to all of us, as usual, to carry this water. In our private and civic lives, our religious place...
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David versus Goliath in fishing Peru
A little more than three years ago, the government of the People's Republic of China surprised the world by reporting that its distant water industrial vessels, which fish for squid at the edge of the...