Posted on 06/29/2015 6:24:32 PM PDT by markomalley
Next year will mark the centennial of the U.S. National Park Service. In the 100 years since it was established, the national parks have become one of Americas most popular federal programs. Now, marine scientists and conservationists want to do for the oceans what the National Park Service did for the land.
When the National Park Service was proposed, it was a really crazy notion, said Jane Lubchenco, prominent marine scientist and former administrator of NOAA, to an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival. It was so far from peoples thinking that wilderness was important to protect in and of itself. Parks and other wilderness now define the American landscape, Lubchenco said. Today, she said, we think about the oceans the way we thought about wilderness 100 years ago, when few Americans had ever visited Yosemite or Yellowstone.
Fourteen percent of landall around the world, all countriesis set aside in some kind of protected status, Lubchenco said. The equivalent for oceans? 3.4 percent, according to the World Database on Protected Areas. And of that, Lubchenco pointed out, only one percent is fully closed off from extractive activities such as fishing.
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Then it would close WWII veteran memorials, erect gay historic site markers, and banning confederate flags as close to the ocean as it could.
The price of seafood would sky rocket,,
Whose nation? The oceans are international zones by international treaty. Here go those “globalization” morons again. I guess they want us to give up our rights to the ocean’s bounty.
Freedom anywhere must be regulated.
Must be some oil or natural gas out there.
I suppose that ships would no longer be allowed on them. Swimming by permit only and forget about taking a picture of one. Jurisdiction would soon creep up the rivers and into every waterway, no matter how small.
The National Park Service would soon be in everyone’s bathtubs, declaring them Wilderness areas.
We have them on a state level in California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Life_Protection_Act
Then I could park my RV on them for free.
..... Well ..... If they were .... most of us would be under water.....
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