Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Who Owns the World's Oceans?

The Controversy of the Oceans

Long ago when the age of exploration was current, people found out that there were minerals on the lands of earth. This led to colonialism. They then found out that a lot of the minerals they found on land were in the sea also. With the gift to adapt and build, humans quickly found out how to find and get minerals from the bottom of the ocean. However, the other horrid gift of humans: selfishness kicked in when other countries wanted to have the minerals too. This lead to fighting for resources. When oil was found useful and was found in the worlds oceans, war broke out on who owned it, who found it first and should we kill animals for it anyway? People didn't really care about this and continued spilling oil, catching healthy fish and drilling the world's oceans out of minerals.

Developing and Wealth in the Ocean

In my personal opinion, developing technology to drill for oil, drill for minerals and catching fish is as useful as hiring a cyborg to work in a magnet shop. In the 1960's, people brought up 400 million tonnes of