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The Ocean Frontier
Author: Adam Starchild

These are ideas that sound like they were snipped from the scenario of one of the new breed of high-tech science-fiction films: A quiet residential neighborhood of homes, shops, and tree-lined open spaces is towed into place and linked up to a town floating off the coast. A community college is lowered onto caissons in the harbor. An entire petr... more »ochemical production complex, including apartments and recreational facilities for its workers, an airstrip, and a small shopping area, is erected on a platform floating in the middle of the sea. The structural and engineering technique for such grandiose ventures is already a reality. So are the economic, social, and regulatory pressures which may soon make the use of floating platforms and artificial islands a necessity for urban and industrial expansion. None of the resources of our planet offered up to humanity's voracious appetites are inexhaustible; this is the great lesson of the nineteen hundreds. The ocean promises hoards of minerals, a bountiful supply of foodstuffs, and millions of barrels of fuel oil, at a time when he scarcity of further untapped resources on the land areas is becoming ominous. But the oceanic resources have their limits as well. The wealth of the world ocean system can be polluted and depleted just as the land based resources have been. Yet the oceans also hold out an exciting challenge, for we are beginning our exploitation of the ocean's fabulous riches with a consciousness of the need for conservation and environmental protection. If this consciousness is maintained at every step, we face the exciting prospect of a truly rational and sound program of oceanic development, in which the greatest amount of use is made of the oceans without damaging the ocean system appreciably. The future of the oceans is truly the future of humanity. As pragmatic as such a program may appear, its most important and long-reaching benefits will surely be socio-psychological rather than simply economic. Along with the development of an ocean resource program, there will be an attendant need for education and training, as well as the creation of new occupational fields in diving, boating, underwater exploration and construction, etc. The cadre of leaders that could evolve out of these occupations would be unique in the world; they would be the ocean pioneers, capable of spearheading a movement to excite the imagination of the youth and develop in people a pride and esprit de corps that would be truly a accomplishment. When in history has a people who have staked out a claim or wrested a living from the virgin wilderness feared the future or become an indolent or dependent people? The answer is never: It is only when there are no frontiers to cross that initiative and the courage to face real choices vanishes.

ISBN-13: 9781410202871
ISBN-10: 1410202879
Publication Date: 9/30/2002
Pages: 136
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Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Book Type: Paperback
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