As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

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