Part 2: THE FUTURE These are our seven seas, which still survive in the end of this second millennium. In Portugal, the underwater marine life is not so exuberant as the one of the other places we saw in the series. But our sea, in spite ...See morePart 2: THE FUTURE These are our seven seas, which still survive in the end of this second millennium. In Portugal, the underwater marine life is not so exuberant as the one of the other places we saw in the series. But our sea, in spite of the multiple aggression's, still holds some unique treasures and almost intact ecosystems. Unfortunately and uncompreenssively this apparent paradise is in endangered. Brutally endangered by the industrial development of the last decades. The waste doesn't destroy only the surface of the planet and the coastal areas. For the misfortune of the underwater ecosystems, the waste created by the human activity is dumped everywhere. And if we don't invert this tendency, if we don't stop destroying Nature, this will be the future. In one generation we will no longer be able to see animals in their wild state and they will be confined to a world of concrete walls, air-conditioned and electric light. This was the message we were clearly left with at the last World Exposition of the XX century: a heritage for the future, of concrete, plastic and silicon... Written by
João Ponces de Carvalho
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