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concentrated in only 4%

ot

the total blood

ot

dead men. " And every living

volume

ot

ocean water - in effect, thing {creature] in the sea died"

the top-most mini-layer of the '·'coat (Revelatlon 16:3). This is reterring to

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lacquer." lt is only in this top-most all marine lite: great whales, dolphins,

Gamer Ted Armstrong

strata that enough sunlight can pene- sharks, tuna, salman, great tish, and

trate to encourage the photosyn- small fish, and all the way down to

thesis neaded

tor

the production of elementary plankton.

marine·plankton. Below this layer of

Can it be that the polluting hand of

lite, the oceans are esseritially noth- man will have a direct part in the ful-

ing but great water desertsl

fillment of this prophecy?

• Marine lite is not evenly distrib-

There are many, many factors

SPIAKS OUT!

uted in this lite-giving !ayer. Ninety strongly indicating that we are living

percent of the marine lite is concen- in the time portrayad in Matthew the

tratad above the shallow continental 24th chapter as· "the time

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the

shelves next to land masses. Taking end." lt ls not a time

tor

people to

The Death of the Oceans?

the ocean as a whole, reports Hey- rush off and sit in·a cave and wait for

erdahl, "much less than half a per- the coming

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the Lord - as a tew

cent

ot

the ocean space repre:;ents misled souls appear to be inclinad to

the home of 90%

ot

all marine lite."

do today. But lt is a time, as the Bible

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f a "doomsday prophet" - be he

religious, scientifíc, or otherwise

·

- makes a pradlction, ignore itl

lt'll never happen.

This is the way many people res–

son. lf the "prophet" is foretelling

bad news, the human tendency on

the part of the listener ís to ignore

it,

hoping somehow that the impendlng

dlsaster will mysteriouslygo away.

Now the latest " disaster news" to

come along from the scientlfic com–

munity is that of the lmpendlng death

of the world's oceans. And

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suppose

many people wlll

also

dismiss this

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etPOJ?;Y'l:Ge.ft!§O~~JuÍ!tlª'!o"tf!er...bl.t,of

doon¡ and gloom sensationalism. · ·

B'ut this is one problem that is not

going to neatly disappear, no matter

how much people choose to ignore it.

In fact. ignoring

it

will actually insure

worldwide ecologlcal disaster!

Years ago during the transoceanic

voyage of the

Ra 11 -

the Egyptian

papyrus boat constructad and navi–

gated by notad voyager Thor Hey–

erdahl in an attempt to prove his

theory conceming the anclent mlgra–

tion of Middle Eastern peoples to the

Central and South American areas - ·

Heyerdahl mentioned that he was

never out of sight of flotsam and jet–

sam and assortad garbage from our

·modern, industrializad world. He con–

stantly observad on the seascape

inky oil slicks, plastic bags, paper

wrappers, and garbage of all types.

A generatlon or

so

ago, no one

would have believed that a lake the

size of Lake Tahoe, tor example -

one of the largest fresh-water lakes in

the world - could actually die. But

now such a "death" is a distinct

po~

sibility. Even the wqrld's largest

fresh-water lake, Lake Balkal in Si–

baria, is threatenad by paper and

pulp wastes unless Soviet authorities

take extreme care. ·

The fact is that each of the world's

uceans is in danger as well . An

ocean. most people fail to realiza, is

simply a veiy large lake whose vast

storehouse of plant. and animal lite

can and will die unless care is exer–

cised to preserve it.

The ocean is tl:le ultimate box can–

yen. lt is the ultimate dead end. lt's

the ultimate cul-de-sac.

All

the pollu- ·

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tion ot the earth finally ends up in the

• Most tragic of

a/1:

lt is into these says, to

"IIft

up your heads when

seas.

same nafrow strips of ocean water these thlngs begin to happen."

As Heyerdahl reportad in the artlcle that the world's land pollutlon ls dis- · "These thlngs" means all the things

"How to Kili an Ocean" in the Novem- charged - whether ttiroug.h sewer Jesus prophesiad In Matthew 24 -

'ber 29, 1975 lssue of Saturday

Re-

outlets or pollutad river mouths dis- wars and rumors of wars, lncreasad

view: "The ocean recelving all [of charglng the wastes trom lndustry drought and famine, widespread dis–

earth 's] pollution has no outlet but and farmland.

ease epidemics, and the assault upon

represents a dead end, because only

So the oceans can die - literally. the environment.

pure water evaporates to return into And as Heyerdahl says: "A dead

The impending death of the oceans

the.clouds .... Today hardly a creek ocean means a dead planet."

is just another indication of the awe-

or a river in the world reaches the

Why?

sorne times in which we Uve.

ocean without carrying a constant

lt's simple. The ocean is, in many

Keep reading Plain Truth. We wlll

flow of non-degradable chemlcals respects, the beglnning of the earth's be going

in~o

these

very

same proph–

from Industrial, urban, or agricultura! food chaln. lt is estimatad that per- esied trends

~nd

events In our new

areas. Directly by sewers'or lndirectiY. haps three fourths of all

th~

oxyge(l .1?;6ries, "Human Survival," beginning

,,; t;>yj~y,;Qhs.!t~

{lnd other •.water-.·,.

nits_e,e<!_~<Lfo&~n;t.~~d~p)m3lllif~:h~

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~ith ttils~ye_,~-~!!"11)'-:§"!?.t\~~

· ' ·

•

- · ·· · ongln .n me· sea. Plankton :.: mil- "

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"Thecefore the land

moums,

and al/ who dwe/1 In lt iangu/sh,

and also the beasts

of

the fleld,

and the blrds of the alr, and even

lhtJ

flsh

of

the

saa·zn

taken away"

..:.. Hosea 4:3, RSV

ways, almost every big city in the

world, whether coastal or inland,

makes use of ·the ocean

as

manklnd's

common sink.

"We treat the ocean." continuad

Heyerdáhl, "as if we belfevad that it is

not part of our ówn planet - as

lf

the

blue waters curvad into space some–

where beyond the horizon where our

pollutants would fati off the adge ....

We build sewers so far loto the sea

that we pipe the harmful refuse away

trom public beaches. Beyond that is

no man's concern. What we conslder

too ciangerous to· be storad under

technical_control ashore, we dump

torever out of sight at sea, whether·

toxic chemicals or nuclear waste.

Our only excuse is the still·surviving ·

image of the ocean as a bottomless

pit."

What makes the oceans and seas

of the

worl~

so

vulnerable, explains

Heyerdahl, is that they are not nearly

as extensiva as people have been led

to believe. Here are sorne points to

consider:

_

•The average depth of the world's

oceans l:o only about

a

mile. When

the earth ls comparad to a billiard

ball, this depth would be less than the

thicknéss of the outer

!ayer

of lacguer.

• Most of the world's marine tite is

lions upon millions'ottonsoftlny ma-

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rine lite - support the entire márine

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MOVING?.

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system of lite. Smaller fish"(Eied on

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.

'·

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. ·these tiny microscoplc organlsms;

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lf you're moving, please let us

k~

4

weeks

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bigger fish feed on the little fish ; and

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In advance. Attach your;mailing

label

to

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the bigger fish are eaten, in tu'rn, by

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giveusyourOid~ress,writeinyour

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even larger marine lite, those valu-

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new

address

below.

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able as food for man.

A big concern In scientitic circles is

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that the essential plankton at the very

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toundation of the pyramldical food

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chain. may be in danger of being

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snuffed out because of the constant

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inpourlng of Industrial and agricul-

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tural pollutants.

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How much longer do we have be-

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fore a pollution point

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no return is

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reached? The ·ramoús ocean-

MALING

ographer Jacques Cousteau said re-

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cently there was real danger that the

HERE

oceans of the world would be "dead

befare another 50 years have

passec:!."

Cousteau spoke of ·a "vitality quo-

- tient" - that is, the a,bility of tl)e

oceans to absorb the impact of pollu–

tlon and still · recuperate. He claims

that this key lndex ot ocean health is

going down much faster than he him–

self expected - an estlmatad 30% to

59% over the past 25 years. Accord–

ing to Cousteau, it has become· a

question of the surviva/ of our chil–

dren now. - rather than that of our

grandchildren in the futurel

Foretold In Your Blble

In Bible prophecy, in the book of

Revelation,.a reference is made to an

angel that symbolically pours out a

vial .upon the sea. The picture ls given

of the sea becomlng as if lt were the

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