在世界海洋日冲浪瑞士

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今天——6月8日——是世界海洋日。像地球日一样,它的目的是引起人们对威胁海洋健康和可持续性问题的关注。你能做什么?嗯,首先,避免食用任何红色或黄色“禁止食用”清单上的鱼类。当您在岸边散步时,捡起垃圾。并庆祝海洋:跳入水中,也许可以航海或冲浪(跳过汽油发动机)。

您可以做的另一件事是在网络上冲浪,到一个起初可能看起来不太可能的目的地:世界经济论坛。没错,就是这个总部位于日内瓦的非营利基金会,以它的名字命名在瑞士达沃斯举办年度会议。会议汇集了商业和政治领袖、知识分子、名人和记者。论坛的更大目标是“改善世界状况”。它发布了一部两分钟的动画影片,《变革的理念》,鼓励人们更好地保护海洋。

该视频由 Lonelyleap 制作,由杰出的海洋学家、环境倡导者和国家地理学会驻地探险家西尔维娅·厄尔解说。厄尔说:“我们一直将海洋视为一个放置我们不需要的东西的地方,以及一个获取似乎无限量的东西的地方。”但她指出,我们已经失去了多达 90% 的大型鱼类,如金枪鱼和马林鱼。 除此之外,这部影片还呼吁禁止海底拖网捕鱼。厄尔总结说:“我将海洋视为地球的蓝色心脏。那么,您想保护您的心脏多少呢?”


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世界经济论坛还发布了一个在线的信息宝库、链接和信息图表,概述了海洋为我们提供的益处以及我们为维持海洋必须克服的挑战。一个引起我注意的统计数据是“我们每两次呼吸中的一次呼吸的氧气都由海洋提供”——氧气是浮游植物在光合作用过程中释放出来的。该网站的基石是海洋健康指数,该指数根据生物多样性、清洁水、沿海保护以及对旅游业和经济的贡献等 10 个类别,对 171 个国家和地区的近海水域进行评级。《大众科学》在去年该指数发布时创建了一个互动图形,这项工作继续教育各国政府如何清理和保护海洋,使其能够在未来几个世纪为人类和自然服务。

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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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