Come Hell and High Water

"Come Hell and High Water: Last Call for a Living Ocean" is an article placed in The Huffington Post in June of 2012. Once I saw that the United Nations' Rio+20 Summit's position on the high seas was to ignore taking any real action for several years, I felt compelled to get this article out. I highlighted the need to immediately address overfishing, a form of ecological decimation that can be readily eliminated.

The Summit's final report, “The Future We Want,” was so lacking in interpretable action that Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace, deemed it "the longest suicide note in history.” The repeated spectacles of nonsolutions like the one in Rio de Janeiro clearly indicate that meaningful environmental, economic and political transformation will only come from bottom-up coalitions.

The entitlement belief behind human supremacism is currently being practiced on a gargantuan scale, with externalized costs disrupting ecosystems at severe to cataclysmic expense to other species as well as most of humanity. The present socioeconomic system has overshot our planet's carrying capacity to the extent that irreversible disarray will soon become the only possible evolution.

Preventing such a disaster requires sustained and dedicated effort by all those who truly care about the future. The time has come to set our priorities straight as a species, lose the infantile egotism and work together en masse. A prime responsibility of all generations is to ensure that the world left to the next one is at least as vital and habitable to the one we live in today. People driven by reason and moral incentive must now take every measure to secure the viability of planet Earth. The outcome is solely in our hands, not corporate functionaries whose mandate is to wreak ever more havoc upon the natural, actual world.