The trial of the century: are we going to empty the ocean?
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About 95% of plastic pollution is located on the seabed, according to Ifremer.
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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
This trial is the first in a cycle that will take place every Monday in Marseille at the Mucem until the end of March.
The Museum of Civilizations and the Mediterranean organizes citizens' deliberations on the excesses of our contemporary societies.
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This week the accused is humanity and the victim is the world ocean.
Polluted, acidified, overexploited ... Are we going to recognize our guilt in the deterioration of the ocean and be condemned to preserve it?
Two experts are investigating this trial: the diver-oceanographer
François Sarano
, founder of the
Longitude 181
association
and
Philippe Curry
, research director at IRD and president of the scientific council of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco.
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