Why Saving the Earth Needs To Become Our Primary Political Obsession

Acting together to save earth needs to be our primary political obsession.

Oh man.

I come back from my holiday in the Dead Zone and my home harbor is dead too.

Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

The Dead Zone in question, by the way, is the Baltic Sea, 15% (20,000 square miles) of which has now officially been declared to be so oxygen-depleted that it is incapable of supporting marine life. It also has the sad distinction of being the largest of the planet’s 400 dead zones. The Baltic is so full of toxic cyanobacteria (a.k.a. green slime) that Polish authorities banned swimming on 50 beaches this summer.

Poisoned tourists being so bad for business, right?

Read the Medium story by Mike Hembury (on his soapbox) - “Why Saving the Earth Needs To Become Our Primary Political Obsession.”