This subject is the ultimate elephant in the room – 71% of the earth’s surface is covered by oceans, and this percentage is growing pretty rapidly. This series is on solutions that use the oceans, and this post is an introduction to this series, and a brief summary of recent posts on offshore wind.
Rain forests may be known as the planet's lungs, but it's when standing before the seas, with their crashing waves and ceaselessly cycling tides, that we feel the earth breathe. The ocean, say scientists, is the source of all life on earth. It is also, say philosophers, the embodiment of life's greatest terror: the unknown and uncontrollable.