Abstract
Abstract Marine pollution refers to the degradation of the earth's oceans. The vast preponderance of marine pollution can be attributed to ways in which humankind relates to the natural environment. Sources include runoff from the use of herbicides, chemical fertilizers, and insecticides in farming, industrial wastes, trailings from mine operations, oil spills, improperly treated sewage, and silt from erosion. To understand the human causes of environmental degradation in general, and marine pollution in particular, it is important to consider a number ofdemographic and social phenomena. These include: increasing population pressures, globalization processes, inefficient use of resources and the dumping of waste, metabolic rift, overtaxing of the oceans' resources as a commons problem, mismatches between the problems and the institutions that would address them, and cultures based around expanding consumption. Addressing these problems would be facilitated by a growing cultural awareness of the natural environment, as well as by the advent of practices stewarding the common resources of the world's oceans.
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