World Oceans Day 2025 (The Beach)

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I never really think about the ocean. It's just here.

Someday, maybe on June 8th, it will be World Ocean Day. Then people will begin to realize our whole way of life is made possible by the oceans.

Trees give us so much, and we can see them. The ocean with all its plankton, water cycle, and underwater forests gives us more, but we cannot see it.

Corporations pollute, and we clean it up.

We might live on chlorella, spirulina, Irish moss, and seaweed -- nourished by all the salts (minerals) of the earth without knowing it -- yet never think to thank the seas from the sand at the foot of the oceans.

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) is halfway through. However, the UN Sustainable Development Goals on life below water (SDG14) remains the most underfunded goal.

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What a wonder the ocean

What would mermaids say?

This World Oceans Day, join us as we celebrate the ocean's essential wonder -- from all the wonders it consists of to the wonder it ignites. The ocean's wonder is what draws us in and drives our urge to protect it. Wonder is the foundation of scientific knowledge, the allure behind exploration, the curiosity that drives innovation, and the seed of traditional wisdom.

The act of wondering serves to remind us that we are part of something bigger. It wakes us up to our inherent connection to this earth and to each other, expands our understanding of what is possible, empowers innovation, and prioritizes decision-making for collective wellbeing.

While the ocean sustains our planet, wonder sustains our humanity. If the warnings haven't changed us, wonder is what will. More: United Nations World Oceans Day

N. Pacific Ocean Gyre garbage patch of plastic

World Oceans Day (WOD) is an international day that takes place annually on June 8th. The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Ocean Project started global coordination of World Ocean Day... More

What is being done to save the planet?

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The ocean needs innovative, passionate leaders to drive the sustainable blue economy and ensure a healthy future. Scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, and technology developers are pushing the frontiers of exploration and innovation to monitor ocean health and counter the big challenges facing the ocean, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Economist Impact’s Ocean Changemakers Challenge showcases leading changemakers working to develop business solutions to ocean-related sustainability challenges. The competition... World Oceans Day | Insight Hour

• Leo Di'o in The Beach in Buddhist Thailand, 2000; World Ocean Day; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Will trees or mushrooms save the world?

Let's work with Mother Nature not against her.

This is what happens to trees when they take in "excess" CO2. That's a silly statement to fan the fires of global warming alarmism. There is no "excess." However much or little there is in the atmosphere, there's a failsafe system in place to restore us to balance. Like mushrooms (fungi), mammals breathe out carbon that trees breathe in. Then they breathe out oxygen.

It's a wonderful system, self-sustaining, self-correcting, self-balancing. More carbon is GOOD for trees and chlorophyll plants, most of which are in the ocean in the form of plankton and seaweeds.

Oak trees, for instance, accumulate more wood when there is more carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere, a recent study shows.

Oak tree branches under sun in summer in Aegean Turkey (Emreturanphoto/Moment/Getty)

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Oak trees accumulate more wood when there is more carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. That’s the key finding from our new study, carried out in a long-established forest in Staffordshire, England, that we have turned into a huge field experiment by injecting with extra CO₂.

After we increased CO₂ levels to what will be the planetary level in the 2050s, trees took more of it from the atmosphere and their wood production increased by 10 percent.

More CO2, please. We love it.

In some ways, this result is reassuring. We know that more CO₂ in the atmosphere can often help plants grow bigger and faster since photosynthesis captures the carbon [but we're trying to find a way to negatively spin that so people continue to alarmism] from which plants are largely made.

However, until now, the only comparable study on an older, mature forest (an Australian eucalyptus forest) found no link between extra CO₂ and tree growth.

Our work shows the link really does exist — at least in some common broadleaf forests. However, woodier trees do not offer a silver bullet to solve climate change.

While carbon is certainly better off in trees than in the atmosphere, where it causes global warming, it’s not a long-term solution. [Of course not, because we need a manmade solution that can be monetized to profit private industry; we can't afford to leave this in the hands of Mother Nature.]

Over decades or centuries, wood rots away, and carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere [and the whole cycle repeats at that time as it has for billions of years].

So, as a store of carbon, trees are not remotely equivalent to it being locked away in coal seams and oil reservoirs deep underground [or on other planets, or in locked vaults and storage units, where the keepers can charge rent governments will have to pay. We need to stop corporate polluting and start planting more regionally-appropriate trees]. More

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• Rob MacKenzie, Richard Norby and The Conversation via Inverse (inverse.com), 8.18, 24; mycologist Paul Stamets, "How Psilocybin Mushrooms Can Help Save the World" at SXSW 2023; CC Liu, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly