We are now in the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

According to this report in the American Geophysical Union's EOS newsletter, the United Nations has declared the next decade what I have in the title, which to repeat is the

Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

That's a fancy way of saying that they're hoping science and scientists can come up with ways to deal with overfishing, climate change, and ocean acidification in such a way that there will be more fish that people can eat.

While I will hope that can be accomplished, I am also realistic that if the world can just merely maintain the current status quo for 10 years, that will be pretty good.

Quoted paragraph from the article:

"The road map outlines some societal themes and potential outcomes of the decade. These outcomes include a clean ocean with sources of pollution identified, quantified, and reduced; a healthy and resilient ocean with marine ecosystems mapped and protected and with climate change and other impacts measured and reduced; a predicted ocean with society having the capacity to better understand current and future ocean conditions; a safe ocean with human communities protected from ocean hazards; a “transparent and accessible” ocean in terms of widespread access to ocean data and technologies; and a sustainably harvested and productive ocean."

Sounds great.  I'm supportive.

One thing we can do:  Eat more lionfish!   (There's too many of them, so we can eat all we want, and they taste good, too, and reducing their population will be good for the reef environment in general.)

The link goes to this recipe:  Blackened Lionfish with Creamy Potato Salad (shown below)