yo everybody. I just wrote up a draft about education. Don't care about gramar or sentence structure, i'll clean it out tomorrow after your comments. Concentrate on Content and lemme know if anything is missing.
Education is essential for the successful implementation and continuation of the solutions. This outreach of information needs to be carried out at three levels namely governments, companies and the people.
When proposing treaties, the UN has to be able to convince nations that it will not be counter-productive (at least in the long term) for them to decrease fish demands (explain how). Trust in the international body responsible for gathering scientific data and routing it to the governments should also be established. This can be achieved by allowing scientific and policy representatives from different countries to work together and by allowing access and review of data by professionals from any interested country. We also need to make governments - especially rich ones - understand how much it is important to save the oceans, irrespective of immediate costs, to prevent a global oceanic catastrophe which, coupled with global warming, could wipe out the human race.
A decrease in food consumption is necessary if we want to save the oceans and will inevitably cause companies to suffer. To ease this crisis- or even to prevent it- government may provide subsidies encouraging the companies to fish and trade sustainable fish. Training could also be offered by government bodies and NGOs to help diversification to other fields such as marine reserves. We also need to make companies understand that fishing more and more will only cause further damage and, in the worst case, a tragedy of the commons. By educating them through workshops and competitions (such as those NOAA? is doing right now), companies need to understand that a drastic change will only help them become more efficient and, in the long term, competitive.
People need to understand that there is a big problem with the ocean and that, in the end, it is their tiny daily efforts and change in attitudes which will help prevent a natural disaster. The problem we have right now is not only about fish, or even the ocean but is all about the way we have been ruining Mother Nature by recklessly overexploiting it. The most efficient methods to reach out to people are, but is not limited to: movies, news corporation advertisements, books, school programs teaching children the value of the environment. It's also about convincing people how the earth's resources are not absolute and will end up one day - in fact very soon if we don't change our habits. And we are convinced (at least I and Al Gore and a bunch of other pretty authoritative scientists and sociologists are, but argumentation is welcomed if you want to challenge that) that, in fact, only day-to-day actions by every one of us is the key to the solutions. Replacing fish one week by tofu, not buying sushi just for the glamour of it, switching off the lights etc are what is going to save the world. And people need to understand that the future of the planet is in their hands, as much as how it is easy for them to save it.
(At all levels: be more responsible with nature and life. We are no more than ants visiting this planet for a small time.)