Opinion: Our seas are wrecked, but not beyond repair

Photos showed the bags fanned out on a medical room floor like a dystopian version of St Bridget’s cloak; the horrible impact of human fecklessness towards our planet seems to spread ever wider, ever further.
The ocean is where life began. It has fed us for millennia, it produces half of the oxygen we breathe and has buffered the Earth from the worst effects of climate change by absorbing vast quantities of carbon dioxide.