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Ocean System - Why do we recommend your swimwear made of sustainable fabrics
The ocean is the main body of the Earth, the cradle of life, and the source of human civilization. The Earth's surface is divided into land and sea. If the geoid is taken as the benchmark, the land area accounts for 29.2% of the total surface area; The ocean area accounts for 70.8% of the total surface area. The ratio of land to sea area is 2.5:1. The world's oceans are usually divided into four major parts, namely the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans. The vast ocean contains a wealth of marine biological resources, and some estimate that the ocean's ability to provide food to humans is equivalent to 1000 times the food provided by the world's land cultivated area.
The marine ecosystem is the most important ecosystem in the world, affecting the stability and security of the global ecosystem. Human survival and its economic, political, cultural, and social development are closely related to the ocean. The marine ecological environment is under tremendous pressure while supporting social and economic development.
Marine pollution is a prominent issue in the marine environment. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defined marine pollution as "the direct or indirect introduction of substances or energy by humans into the marine environment, including estuaries and harbors, resulting in or potentially causing damage to living resources and marine life, endangering human health, hindering various marine activities, including fishing and other legitimate uses of the ocean, damaging the quality of seawater use, and harming environmental aesthetics and other harmful effects. According to this definition, marine pollutants refer to substances or energy that pollute the ocean, such as petroleum and its refining products, heavy metals, pesticides, radioactive substances, hot wastewater, solid waste, pathogenic organisms, and so on.
Due to the vast ocean space, some people believe that the ocean has unlimited self-cleaning capacity. However, marine scientific research has proven that the marine environment is also a limited ecosystem, and due to the communication between the oceans, the dynamic factors are extremely complex. Local sea pollution may also gradually spread globally, and may even cause long-term harm to the global ecological environment.
In July 2016, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO released a research report on the current situation of global large-scale marine ecosystems, stating that the worsening climate change and human activities have caused concern for the state of global large-scale marine ecosystems. From 1957 to 2012, seawater temperature continued to rise in 64 out of 66 large marine ecosystems worldwide. In terms of plastic pollution, there is a high risk of pollution in the waters of East and Southeast Asia, as well as in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. In terms of seawater eutrophication, 21% of large marine ecosystems will face eutrophication risks by 2050, mainly concentrated in East Asia, South America, and Africa. In addition, over 50% of global coral reefs are threatened, and this proportion will reach 90% by 2030.
Reference：https://www.mee.gov.cn/searchnew/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/marine-pollution/
The marine ecosystem is the most important ecosystem in the world, affecting the stability and security of the global ecosystem. Human survival and its economic, political, cultural, and social development are closely related to the ocean. The marine ecological environment is under tremendous pressure while supporting social and economic development.
Marine pollution is a prominent issue in the marine environment. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defined marine pollution as "the direct or indirect introduction of substances or energy by humans into the marine environment, including estuaries and harbors, resulting in or potentially causing damage to living resources and marine life, endangering human health, hindering various marine activities, including fishing and other legitimate uses of the ocean, damaging the quality of seawater use, and harming environmental aesthetics and other harmful effects. According to this definition, marine pollutants refer to substances or energy that pollute the ocean, such as petroleum and its refining products, heavy metals, pesticides, radioactive substances, hot wastewater, solid waste, pathogenic organisms, and so on.
Due to the vast ocean space, some people believe that the ocean has unlimited self-cleaning capacity. However, marine scientific research has proven that the marine environment is also a limited ecosystem, and due to the communication between the oceans, the dynamic factors are extremely complex. Local sea pollution may also gradually spread globally, and may even cause long-term harm to the global ecological environment.
In July 2016, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO released a research report on the current situation of global large-scale marine ecosystems, stating that the worsening climate change and human activities have caused concern for the state of global large-scale marine ecosystems. From 1957 to 2012, seawater temperature continued to rise in 64 out of 66 large marine ecosystems worldwide. In terms of plastic pollution, there is a high risk of pollution in the waters of East and Southeast Asia, as well as in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. In terms of seawater eutrophication, 21% of large marine ecosystems will face eutrophication risks by 2050, mainly concentrated in East Asia, South America, and Africa. In addition, over 50% of global coral reefs are threatened, and this proportion will reach 90% by 2030.
Reference：https://www.mee.gov.cn/searchnew/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/marine-pollution/
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