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THE BAD NEWS
NASA’s satellite imaging states that the mass of phytoplankton plants has been reducing by 1% year on year over the last 20 years. Research by Dalhousie University, published in NATURE, confirms a reduction of more than 40% from 1950's (Up to 2012).
Plankton provide more than up to 90% of our oxygen and remove most of our carbon dioxide. They represent 90% of all biological productivity on the whole planet. In effect 1% of all life on the planet is dying every year.
By 2045 years we will have lost 75-80% of all plankton, the oceans will become more acidic with a pH of 7.95. We will then lose all of the remaining whales, seals, birds and the fish, and along with them a food supply for 2 billion people. Life on Earth is going to change, in fact life on earth may become impossible.
It doesn’t take science to tell you we cannot survive without healthy oceans, common sense tells us we need to stop poisoning them with toxic chemicals and plastic. If we had not killed more than 50% of the plankton with toxic chemicals since the chemical revolution during the 1950’s, then we would not have had elevated CO2 and climate change.
Life on earth will be impossible if we destroy the plankton, and this will happen by 2045 unless we stop the pollution
Did You Know?
Every other breath you take comes from the world’s oceans. In fact, the science indicates that between 50% and 90% of the planet’s oxygen is generated by plankton. The microscopic plants and animals, drifting throughout the oceans, use photosynthesis to generate oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. But oxygen levels are dropping 4 times quicker than carbon dioxide is increasing, this is not climate change, it can only be ecosystem destruction.
Over 30,000 tonnes of Oxybenzone (active component) in sunscreen gets dumped on corals each year when you go swimming. At 62 parts per trillion it is highly toxic to coral and plankton. 70,000 tonnes would wipe out all life in all the world's oceans. Oxybenzone is used as a UV stabilizers in plastic, paint, adhesives and many other products. Global production is more than 3,000,000 tonnes every year.
This demonstrates cause..and effect. We have to stop using chemicals toxic to the environment, because they are also toxic to us.

It is a grim road towards catastrophic ocean system breakdown by 2045...
Because all pollution eventually ends up in the oceans.
sunscreen, pharmaceuticals, care tyres, plastic, herbicides, pesticides, PCBs, PBDE
When it comes to the failing health of our planet, the prevailing focus has been increasing carbon dioxide levels from burning of fossil fuels. It is important to reduce carbon emissions, but we must also eliminate toxic chemical pollution. The oceans are the lungs of the planet but since the Chemical Revolution in the 1950’s and the production of herbicides and pesticides, the oceans are suffocating under a toxic chemical cocktail. Marine toxic chemicals are in every type of household cleaner and personal care product. The world now manufactures thousands of different toxic chemicals that are killing the plankton and halting their ability to produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
It is the GOES team’s strongest held belief that If we had not poisoned the oceans, we could have prevented climate change.
It’s absolutely and completely impossible to overestimate the importance of photosynthesis in the maintenance and now delicate balance of life on Earth. We are all witness to the lose of phytoplankton, the decline in oxygen production and the well published CO2 increase — our oceans are already more acidic and climate change is accelerating at a much faster rate than previously predicted.
We must restore our oceans.
It’s not just about saving whales and dolphins – WE cannot survive if we keep poisoning them. If we don’t address this, they’ll become too acidic and we’ll witness a cascade failure of the wider planetary ecosystem. Terrestrial life on earth will become impossible unless you have an oxygen tank on your back! At the current rates of decline, we will reach this tipping point any time in the next 25 years. It will happen quickly, be impossible to reverse, and we will have run-away climate change and mass starvation on a global scale, unless we act now.
THE GOOD NEWS
The GOES Foundation is taking urgent action to lead the essential sea change needed to restore plankton levels and it is this action that can address ocean acidification and global warming. We’re a team of thinking, breathing, well-connected human beings and we believe it is possible to prevent a catastrophic collapse of our life on earth, but we need to take decisive action over the next 10 years or it will be too late.
GOES is working worldwide to halt the poisoning of the oceans by advocating that we should all take a non-toxic approach to how we live: design out and ban all toxic chemicals, hazardous waste and plastics. By preventing toxic chemicals entering the ecosystem,
we can accelerate the recovery of the plankton, health of the oceans and start absorbing more carbon dioxide out from the atmosphere.
Universal sea change requires global engagement. AND it’s easy for you to help. Whether you’re in a position of influence, sailing the oceans or you are simply eager to change a few bad buying habits and protect the world you live in, it’s time to change — go non-toxic!
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GOES LIFELINES
The GOES Global Oceanic Environmental Survey is our practical and immediate response to the often financially, logistically challenging scientific surveys. By harnessing the ocean-loving enthusiasm of the international sailing community and providing them with plankton sampling kits, GOES will collect thousands of vitally important samples of plankton from remote places all around the globe.

Education
Plankton-inspired living
Through public awareness and easy access educational and learning resources, GOES inspires, mobilises and supports adults and children to change the way they live, and to choose the least toxic products to eat, clean or use in the shower.

Advocacy
Speak plankton to everyone
GOES exists to communicate the urgent need for a change in the global procurement and use of ocean toxic chemicals at every level of society. By engaging with key players in industry, government, science, media and education, we equip those who can make industrial and social change with the information they need to make informed decisions.

Sampling
Plankton citizen science
It is the ocean sailors around the globe who traverse the open seas who make the GOES project utterly unique. They are at the heart of our research community and their contribution to the GOES metadata which will inform us on the presence of specific persistent chemicals.
Who we are
The GOES team have a huge breadth and depth of knowledge and practical experience and expertise encompassing all aspects of the science and its real-world application, from the environmental to the social, economic and the political.
Dr.Stephanie Terreni-Brown, leads the team in Roslin research at our base in Edinburgh
Caroline Duncan, is a PhD student working with indigenous people, drinking water and environmental issues in the high Arctic
Dr.Brandi Revels /Switzerland, Henrique Miranda / Portugal,Oliver Solanas Heinrichs / Canaries


Leading, internationally acclaimed marine biologist, Dr Howard Dryden, takes the helm as Chief Scientific Officer of GOES. As an academic and successful business man, Howard’s 30+ year career has been focused on one vision — to make the aquatic environment safer and cleaner for humans and all the other organisms on which our life depends.
Dr. Dryden has exceptional knowledge and experience of combining biology, chemistry and physical sciences and their application to the real world impact of chemical pollution. His work ranges across every aspect from the supply of safe clean drinking water to fish farming, industrial wastewater management and large-scale environmental disaster control. When he isn’t working, advising on water policy or speaking at conferences around the world, Howard is sailing its coastal and open oceans!
Howard, along with his team of marine biologists, and an experienced globally-connected group of policy makers, communication experts and management consultants are the driving force behind GOES.
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Diane Duncan,
Diane is a geologist as well a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Royal Society for Arts. She wears numerous hats! She was employed in the public sector as a senior manager in an economic and community development organisation and wrote the first low carbon climate change policy in Scotland.
She is a specialist in business development and marketing strategy; however, her passion lies in the effective delivery of international development with a focus on providing clean drinking water for low income communities, and protection of marine ecosystems.
She has developed strong and broad international network of friends and colleagues who are as passionate as she is about ‘doing the right thing’ for the environment and for empowering people through better health and enterprise.