The 11th Hour (20 of 49)

The 11th Hour

In some classrooms, it'll be 60 percent.
There's an ocean crisis now.
And the upshot is that we've taken too much out of the ocean...
we've put too much into the ocean, too much pollution...
and we're wrecking the edge of the ocean.
We've lost 90 percent of most of the big fish...
in half a century, so we're turning to deeper areas, further areas offshore.
So between overfishing and by-catch, we' re really removing millions...
if not billions, of animals from the ocean every year.
Many of them don't even become food for humans.
They just are wasted.
What we put into the ocean...

millions of tons of things that aren't natural to the sea...
they come back to us in perverse ways.
Some fish concentrate these substances...
things like mercury, heavy metals of various sorts...
the pesticides, the herbicides.
Corporations dump on equivalent...
at the smallest, they do five million gallons per day of toxins into the bay.
It 's everything from benzene to acrylonitrile to mercury to copper to....
You name it, they've got it.
A lot of the chemicals very common in today's world: Plastics, artificial colors, pesticides...
are really high on the list of suspect agents...
that promote cancer, that promote premature aging...
that increase risks of chronic degenerative diseases.
Why don't we think about some of these disorders...
such as autism, ADHD...