Krov Menuhin ist ein renommierter Unterwasser-Filmemacher und Naturschützer (und Yehudi Menuhins ältester Sohn). Heute hat er mir einen Brief geschrieben:
Dear Benny,
As always I read with interest each new posting on your most excellent website, particularly the criticism of the Malthusian mind set so dominant among those only capable of looking at this magnificent planet in finite terms.
My life has been mostly associated with the ocean, growing up in the Bahamas, diving in the military and, most importantly, spending the last 40 years making films principally about the ocean for BBC, Channel 4 and French Television. As with anyone who spends time on and in the ocean I am aware of it’s vastness and how little we actually know about it. 72% of the planet is covered by ocean as well as the fact that 50% of the United States territory is underwater and yet we have better maps of Mars than we do of that 50%!
I come from Australia and am well aware that most of the Southern Ocean is still unexplored – as a matter of fact there were more oceanographic ships in that area in the time of Captain Cook then there are today. Beneath the surface of most all our oceans is a mountain range 67,000 kilometers long that covers ¼ of the entire planets surface. This mountain range comprises of tens of thousand of volcanoes, most continually spewing out commercial grades and in commercial quantities of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold, the near-by ocean floor covered with massive heavy metal deposits and rare earths and the geothermal potential is limitless.
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