Why consider opposing viewpoints? --
ch. 1. What threatens the world's oceans? --
1. Human activities threaten the world's oceans / Baha'i International Community --
2. The threat to the world's oceans can be overcome / Jack Sterne and David Wilmot --
3. Loss of coral reefs threatens the world's oceans / Peter N. Spotts --
4. Efforts to protect the world's coral reefs are progressing / Timothy R. E. Keeney --
5. Overfishing threatens the world's oceans / Ben Carmichael --
6. The threat posed by overfishing is exaggerated / Jim Hutchinson Jr. --
7. Runoff pollution threatens the world's oceans / Kenneth R. Weiss --
8. Acidification threatens the world's oceans / Usha Lee McFarling --
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ch. 2. What ocean policies are best? --
1. Federal regulations are necessary to reduce cruise ship pollution / Sam Farr --
2. Voluntary efforts are adequate to reduce cruise ship pollution / Michael Crye --
3. Ocean iron fertilization may reduce global warming's impact / Dan Whaley, Margaret Leinen, and Kevin Whilden --
4. Ocean iron fertilization will not reduce global warming's impact / Andrew Myers --
5. The United States should ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea / Benjamin Friedman and Daniel Friedman --
6. The United States should not ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea / Frank J. Gaffney Jr. --
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ch. 3. What strategies would best promote sustainable fishing? --
1. Aquaculture will fill the gap in the seafood supply / William T. Hogarth --
2. Aquaculture practices are inefficient / Ken Hinman --
3. Banning bottom trawling would protect deep sea ecology / Joshua Reichert --
4. Expecting fishing technologies to have no ecological impact is unreasonable / Nils Stolpe --
5. Marine reserves will preserve dwindling fish stocks / Bijal P. Trivedi --
6. Marine reserves will not stop destructive fishing practices / National Coalition for Marine Conservation --
7. Individual fishing quotas benefit U.S. fisheries / Ronald Bailey --
8. Individual fishing quotas do not benefit U.S. fisheries / Food & Water Watch --
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ch. 4. What impact do human activities have on marine mammals? --
1. The commercial whaling ban is necessary to protect endangered species / Ben Macintyre --
2. Whaling can be sustainable when properly managed / Philip Armour --
3. Antisubmarine sonar harms marine mammals / Dick Russell --
4. Antisubmarine sonar has adequate safeguards to protect marine mammals / Donald C. Winter --
5. Keeping marine mammals in captivity is cruel exploitation / Humane Society of the United States --
6. Keeping marine mammals in captivity promotes conservation / Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums --
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