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“It’s time for a bailout for the oceans,” declared Oceana’s chief scientist Michael Hirschfield at today’s National Press Club press briefing. Hirschfield, along with three of the country’s top marine scientists, urged the Obama administration, namely recent energy appointees Carol Browner and Lisa Jackson, to abandon the ideology of the past eight years and take science seriously.
Overfishing, climate change, pollution, and increasing acidity were cited as the most ominous threats. But these threats are hardly new. Mother Jones examined the plight, the players, and the solutions in our 2006 special report “The Last Days of the Ocean.” Check it out here.
