Why don’t we heed seas’ warning signs?

Anyone who reads Alex Renton’s piece this morning (Deep End: What rapid changes means for our seas, pages 13, 14 and 15) cannot but be concerned about the destruction he describes; anyone who reads the piece and thinks about how we reached this dangerous point and how little we are doing to reverse the unfolding apocalypse — not by any means too strong a phrase — cannot but be frightened and angry.

And so we should be. Any other reaction would be a form of denial and very difficult to understand. Anyone who still thinks this is about the survival of fish and crabs rather than humanity is in denial too.

Renton describes vast areas of ocean turned sterile and unproductive — dead zones — because of human behaviour, behaviour that despite all of the grim warnings and grand rhetoric continues unchecked, indeed in some instances accelerates.