How the ‘Blue Economy’ is Devouring the Ocean it Claims to Save.
Projects like the Great Nicobar mega-development must be subjected to genuine, independent environmental scrutiny rather than the performance of compliance.
Imagine waking up one morning to find that the lungs of the Earth have been appropriated for business. That the vast, ancient, breathing wilderness covering more than 70% of the planet’s surface – the source of every second breath we take, the regulator of our climate, the cradle of our food – has been carved up, zoned, auctioned and branded as an ‘economy.’
Let us not get shocked. It is already happening. It is being called the ‘blue economy.’ And on this World Ocean Day, as the United Nations invites us to “Reimagine: Beyond the World We Know, A New Relationship with Our Ocean,” we must face a disturbing truth. The loudest voices reimagining the ocean are investment bankers, port developers and government planners with trillion-dollar ambitions.
