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We’re trashing the oceans — and they’re returning the favor by making us sick

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Washington Post

Publication Date
2016-08-09

Six years ago, in a bracing 18-minute TED talk, coral reef scientist Jeremy Jackson laid out “how we wrecked the ocean.” In the talk, he detailed not only how overfishing, global warming, and various forms of pollution are damaging ocean ecosystems — but also, strikingly, how these human-driven injuries can be harmful to those who live on land.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/08/were-trashing-the-oceans-and-making-ourselves-sick-in-the-process/?utm_term=.b7bbfb4edc00