Source: Global Citizen
Author: James Hitchings-Hales
Our oceans might seem like an endless expanse of life and beauty.
But beneath all that blue is a fragile, finite ecosystem under unprecedented pressure from a malevolent force quite literally turning up the heat on marine life — yep, you guessed it, that’s us: the human race.
Now, the European Union (EU) does have a plan, of sorts, to reverse the damage already done — called the EU Biodiversity Strategy. However, environmental groups are protesting a distinct lack of progress, putting forward their own 10-point action plan to kickstart the process of averting biodiversity catastrophe.
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