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- Title
Mojarse para combatir la pérdida de biodiversidad marina.
- Authors
Moro, Cecilia del Castillo
- Abstract
We are in a state of oceanic emergency. Climate change is battering the ocean with increasing heatwaves and acidification, and the loss of marine biodiversity is more evident than ever: more than 80% of marine biodiversity will be in danger by 2100 if we do not put an end to fossil fuels. However, the ocean remains the little cousin of climate summits and often also within the ecological struggle. One of the reasons that explains this phenomenon may be the minimal approach of citizens to the marine world, even in coastal cities and towns, as it is associated among other things with class privilege: sailing, diving or surfing are exclusive sports. In addition, the capitalist blindness that for years has turned dune cordons into beach bars and buildings and continues to use the coast as a tourist attraction or municipal dump have denigrated the seas that surround us literally and metaphorically. The marine environment offers us the possibility of discovering wild and enigmatic species right here, without the need to make exotic trips or to enclose animals in aquariums. Perhaps on a beach much closer than you imagine live species of microalgae, marine plants, or fish as essential for life on the planet as forests or coral reefs are.
- Subjects
MARINE biodiversity; CLIMATE change; MARINAS; CAPITALISM; COASTS
- Publication
Ecología Política, 2023, Vol 66, p20
- ISSN
1130-6378
- Publication type
Article