Australia's new Foreign Minister, Senator Bob Carr, has spoken up about his concerns for the state of the world's oceans and says their plight is a nagging worry that he wants to highlight as foreign minister.
Within a week after being sworn in as both a senator and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the former NSW Premier said he has two "pet enthusiasms", which he wants to weave into Australia's foreign policy.
"I'm just nagged by the worry that we might be, with the oceans, where we were in 1975 or 1980, with awareness of what we were doing to the Earth's atmosphere," Carr told The Sydney Morning Herald in an article published on March 17. "We don't know how quickly a tipping point might be reached. You can't imagine a healthy planet without being sustained by healthy oceans."
Carr referred to acidification, overfishing and the dumping of fertilisers and chemicals into the earth's oceans as creating 'huge dead areas'.
Marine Digest
