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Ocean
03:16
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The ocean is so loud and wet
Can't excrete its cry for help
caught up in a gill net
Our potential savior is under a serious threat
Blue, vast, peaceful, deep
But if the ocean was see-through
we could not see through
the outlaw ocean
Nature speaking up, making a commotion
And it says:
Ohjajajaohjajaja
I feel sick
was it something I ate
Well what I eat for dinner is another person's fate
I feel bad
was it something I ate
Fish who could feed 33 million people is used as bait
I feel ill
was it something I ate?
Well, what I eat for lunch effects the climate's state
If someone could tell us exactly what it is that we have on our plate
that would be great
Cause it says:
Ohjajajaohjajaja
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Waste Away
03:04
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Oil, sewage, corpses, chemical effluvium, garbage, military ordnance, and even at sea superstructures like oil rigs, could disappear into the ocean, as if swallowed up by a black hole, never to be seen again
For centuries, humanity has viewed the ocean as a metaphor for infinity
The assumption was, and frankly still is for many people - that the enormity of the sea came with a limitless ability to absorb and metabolize all
This vastness is what lends the ocean deity-like potential
And more narrowly, it is also what has provided us over the years with license to dump virtually anything off shore
Oil, sewage, corpses, chemical effluvium, garbage, military ordnance, and even at sea superstructures like oil rigs, could disappear into the ocean, as if swallowed up by a black hole, never to be seen again
No matter how vast, blue and deep
There’s no infinity
We’re half asleep
But it does the job
Covering up our gigantic rubbish heap
As if swallowed up by a black hole
Just like the atmosphere filled with black coal
Our believe in limitless ability to absorb and metabolize all
That’s the ocean and humanity’s downfall
That’s the ocean and humanity’s downfall
Oil, sewage, corpses, chemical effluvium, garbage, military ordnance, and even at sea superstructures like oil rigs, could disappear into the ocean, as if swallowed up by a black hole, never to be seen again
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Wide-Eyed Quiet
02:54
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The ocean is as large as it’s small
Look a the map of the planet
and you’ll see mostly blue
Sitting there watching this exotic place pulsate around me
I felt the humbling sense of marvel
A wide-eyed quiet
As if I an alien secretly visiting someone else’s domain
Perhaps in helping oceans flourish
we can start to see
that our oceans are not just a victim of the climate crisis,
but a big part of it’s solution
What grabbed me that day
was how much of this place is magically upside down;
fish in the air, birds underwater
white streaks above us
And blue below
Part of its beauty is its exotic unpredictability
The wonder of it all is magnetic
And each time I return to land
I felt an intense longing for this place
Homesick for a location not my home
Despite the suffering I’d seen there
Perhaps in helping oceans flourish
we can start to see
that our oceans are not just a victim of the climate crisis,
but a big part of it’s solution
Perhaps in helping oceans flourish
we can start to see
that our oceans are not just a victim of the climate crisis,
but a big part of it’s solution
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The Next Frontier
03:10
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You have to go now
Time was running out
And the waves were getting worse
Then, it slowly began
There are a few remaining frontiers on our planet
Perhaps our wildest and least understood
are the world’s oceans
You have to go now
Time was running out
And the waves were getting worse
Then, it slowly began
As we arrived at the coast
we flew over the largest continuous mangrove forest in the world,
stretching roughly 124 miles
Mangrove swamps protected coastal areas from erosion, storm surges
Especially during hurricanes and tsunamis
Barely explored and with little of its vast biodiversity cataloged, the mangrove swamps are lush and otherworldly places
The trees seem to teeter over the water
on delicate spidery roots
Neither fully terrestrial nor marine
the swamps are brackish habitats teeming with fish, crabs, shrimps, turtles, and mollusk species below the water, and birds and mammals above
If an oil spill occurred in the new drilling fields near the Amazon, these mangroves, which were far older than the world’s obsession with oil, would likely pay the price
You have to go now
Time was running out
And the waves were getting worse
Then, it slowly began
There are a few remaining frontiers on our planet
Perhaps our wildest and least understood
are the world’s oceans
You have to go now
Time was running out
And the waves were getting worse
Then, it slowly began
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Time Travel
02:22
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I’ve been traveling for forty months
251 miles
Forty cities
Every continent
Over 12000 nautical miles
Across five oceans and twenty other seas
I’ve met vigilante conservationists, wreck-thieves, maritime mercenaries, defiant whalers, offshore repo-men, sea-bound abortionists, clandestine oil dumpers, elusive poachers, abandoned seafarers and cast-adrift stowaways
Viewed as one, this voyage had taken me to places so foreign that to experience them felt like space travel as I witnessed things;
Piracy, whaling, slavery, privateers;
That I had previously assumed were fully locked in the past
At a time when we know exponentially more about the world around us, with so much at our fingertips and nothing but a swipe away, we know shockingly little about the sea
For most of us, the sea is simply a place we fly over, a broad canvas of darker and lighter blues
Though it can seem vast and all-powerful, it is vulnerable and fragile in part because environmental threats travel far
Transcending the arbitrary borders map-makers have applied to the oceans over the centuries
For all it’s breathtaking beauty, the ocean is also a dystopian place; home to dark inhumanities
The rule of law - often so solid on land, bolstered and clarified by centuries of careful wordsmithing, hard-fought jurisdictional lines, and robust enforcement regimes - is fluid at sea
If it’s to be found at all…
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Ocean with Ian Urbina
01:42
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Tuvaband Norway
I produce dark indie alternative pop rock folk shoegaze post-rock quiet noisy minimalistic maximalistic lofi music.
‘Something Good’ from my upcoming album is out 30.09.22!
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