Sir Robin Knox Johnson, the first person to sail non-stop around the world.
When he sailed sailing vessel Suhaili around the world in 1968, there were at least 4 times more fish, whales and marine life in the worlds Oceans. Marine life is now dying at a rate of at least 2% year on year and over the next 20 years, there will be 50 times less life in comparison to 1900.
The Oceans are dying, the life support system for the planet is collapsing and we are losing the main regulator of the climate, because the focus is on carbon. In any event, nothing is being done to reduce carbon emissions, so it almost a total waste of time.
Sir Robin required sponsorship to help finance his voyage, he went out to industry in the UK, and the response was a £5 gift token for chocolate from Cadburys, and 10 crates of beer from Tennents in Scotland. Sir Robin later said that he lost most of his water in 3 storms and if it wasn’t for the beer, he may not have made it around the world. It was my father, when he managed Tennents brewery, that donated the beer.
The photo is of Sir Robin and I just before I joined Clipper Around the World Race to crew on the leg between Rio De Janeiro and Cape Town. I chose this leg because it takes you into the rolling 40’s for some serious sailing and marine life. During the 18 day sail in 2015, we did not see any whales. This was a shock to my system and as a result, we started www.GoesFoundation.com to start answering some questions.
We have now completed stage 1 of GOES and the conclusion is that the Ocean have up to 10 times more plastic and partially combusted carbon particles above 20 microns than marine life at the ocean surface.
60% of all marine life biomass is under 1mm in size and has a doubling time of just 3 days. If we stopped the pollution from lipophilic toxic chemicals, partially combusted carbon, and plastic, marine life would rebound super-fast.
80% of the world’s effluent and atmospheric pollution is discharged untreated, it is now causing 90%+ of all cancer and many other conditions. It would be much easier to clean up our oceans and atmosphere than to reduce carbon emissions.
We could have a clean, healthy world, with an ecosystem that could deal with carbon. This would be the real solution for our survival and climate change, but why is it being totally ignored ?
www.seahorsepoint.org Nature resilience Centre and www.Geoversity.org
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