The seas.

I've probably gone too big with this topic. The seas are really really big. Therefore, this post will probably be a ramble about a few topics that are to do with the sea.

Something that keeps cropping up is overfishing. There are so many billions of people consuming fish and most of them have no idea where the fish has come from or how it has got to their plate. They also don't care. We need to stop overfishing our seas, because once fish numbers drop below a certain level, they won't recover. We are in danger of wiping out species, which is terrible for the environment and ecology, but also terrible because they are delicious. Surely we should be able to farm fish more sustainably by now? We've been farming sheep and cows for hundreds of years, surely we can do that with some species of fish at least? Even if this isn't feasible then we still have to do something. We should eat a wider variety of fish, so that only a smaller percentage of each species is taken from the ocean. We could also eat less fish and eat more vegetables that we grow ourselves. We could just eat less altogether, there is an obesity crisis after all. No matter what we do, we are going to run out of resources eventually, so perhaps as well as stopping eating we should also stop breeding quite so much. Leave the breeding to the fish.

Another aspect of the sea is how bloody deep it is. You can drop 13 of the world's tallest building into some part of the ocean and still drown if you were stood on the top. Other than the obvious logistical issues surrounding it, why aren't we exploring this area? Apparently we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the deep sea (that said, there doesn't seem to be anything really interesting about the surface of the moon. Looks like just dust). We know about the ugly and amazing creatures that live down there, but there must be thousands more species, just waiting to be discovered. There could be other things down there that we can't even imagine. There might be cures for diseases, or mermaids, or Atlantis, although the latter two might be quite unlikely. My point still stands however. What if NASA, instead of going into space, used all that money and technology to explore the vast areas of our own planet that we know sod all about.

Finally, the sea is beautiful, from about and below. Let's keep it that way.