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Article: WILL WE SAVE THE OCEANS? ...ONE OF THE KEY UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO THE WORLD'S CLIMATE - WILL IT GET TOO HOT OR TOO COLD FOR HUMAN COMFORT? - DEPENDS ON THE OCEANS.(P-I Focus)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 7, 1998
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More people have walked on the moon than have visited the ocean floor.
That trenchant observation comes from ``Danger at Sea: Our Changing Ocean,'' a new SeaWeb publication.
It neatly sums up our species' ignorance of our own planet. And this is an ignorance we can ill afford. It leads to abuse of a component of our environment that's essential to human survival.
Next week the Clinton administration will have a chance to do something about it. A National Oceans Conference will be held in Monterey, Calif., June 11 and 12, and 120 groups have called on the White House to use it to set in motion a far-reaching agenda for saving the seas.
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