Oceanic Economics
At a time when the world faces a multitude of potential calamities ranging from climate change to water pollution and plastic pollution, to rapid population growth, the solution may well be in the sea around us. “It is water, the world’s most valuable element, the key ingredient to solving Earth’s most vexing problems,” says Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory (worldoceanobservatory.org) and author of “THE ONCE AND FUTURE OCEAN: Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society.”