I don’t want to sound like Dr Doom but I came across two disturbing articles recently.

In ‘The ocean is broken’ (Greg Ray, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Oct 2013) a sailor compared the empty ocean he traversed recently (in his sailing trip from Melbourne, Australia to Osaka, Japan) with the bountiful plenty experienced on the same trip only ten years ago. Empty of life that is. But full of garbage.

Then I read ‘Choking oceans complete ‘deadly trio’ for marine life ‘ (New Scientist No 2938, 12 Oct 2...