Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post-COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The ocean is the linchpin supporting life on Earth, but it is in declining health due to an increasing footprint of human use and climate change. Despite notable successes in helping to protect the ocean, the scale of actions is simply not now meeting the overriding scale and nature of the ocean's problems that confront us.Moving into a post-COVID-19 world, new policy decisions will need to be made. Some, especially those developed prior to the pandemic, will require changes to their trajectories; others will emerge as a response to this global event. Reconnecting with nature, and specifically with the ocean, will take more than good intent and wishful thinking. Words, and how we express our connection to the ocean, clearly matter now more than ever before.The evolution of the ocean narrat

SUBMITTER: Laffoley D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7753556 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature