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The Secret Life of Plankton and the Acid Test
Take a fish’s eye view of the world. It’s both beautiful and fascinating. You’ll be peering under the waves to look at the least understood part of our world, the ocean and its hidden mysteries. In this video, you’re looking at the basis of your own existence….
Of course, not all is well in the plankton department. Climate change and its associated ocean acidification, along with widespread pollution, are threatening the building blocks of life….
Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
Narrated by Sigourney Weaver
Thanks for both clips.
The plankton story reminds me when i ate plankton our oceanographic ship. It was caught in long nets that look like one of these italian collander for pasta…. only deeper…
A tea spoon i used if you want to know.
The Acid Test widened my deph of field.
Thanks again.
Good videos, but they are a dime-a-dozen, and I fear humans will be plotting their downfall as-it-happens with vivid colour, entertainment-value, graphic-detail and precision.
Besides, at the end of Weaver’s video, it still seems to have a BAU flavour for the car and large-scale (on-grid) wind-farms.
Mollison, Holmgren et al. have been at this now for how long?
And how many decades do we have left? What’s the rate of permaculture uptake?
‘Permaculture’ seems to need to somehow evolve into something that transcends itself and/or ‘just-another-movement’; its ‘collaboration’, for example, less isolated, more fluid.
So what does ocean permaculture look like? As many marine conservation areas as possible with requirements to use fishing technologies that only do harm proportional with yields (e.g. long-line vs. trawling)? Is there something like swales of the sea by which we could massage the expansion of life — say, dropping artificial reefs made of waste streams (unused giant shipping tankers and army surplus, piles of broken concrete from demolition projects, etc. (minus overly harmful chemical bits, of course)?) in areas that have appropriate temperature and sunlight penetration for reef growth but no hard surfaces for spores to latch onto? Also, is there any living system in the oceans that consumes carbonic acid that could be targeted and empowered?