quotes by Jacques Cousteau.....advertising by BP

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. 

The sea is the universal sewer.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. 




If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.





We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

People protect what they love.

~All quotes in this post by the great Jacques Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)

COUSTEAU:

Created in 1973 by Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the Cousteau Society communicates the beauty and fragility of our water planet, believing that an informed and alerted public can best make the choices to insure a healthy and productive world.

Captain Cousteau understood that the support of the greater public is the most effective weapon to win over political decision-makers in the battle for the environment. Each of our members is an important part of this effort.
You can become a member of the Cousteau Society today and add your support for the crucial work to protect the future.

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prescience in poetry

Oil Slick on Water by Dave Martin


THE CITY
   ~by Eeva-Liisa Manner*

How the houses have grown in this city,
the chasms deepened, the water become blacker,
soon it will creep on to the streets, the balustrades are fragile,
the water table is rising, the basements are already full,
fear is rising, fear is hidden
in oppressive tact,
in open crimes.
Soon boats will be needed, do you hear the roar,
take the boats, hats are no help any more,
or, if you plunge in bravely,
take word to him, the Mover,
that the distress is very great.



*one of the poems from This Journey (1956)

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