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shot of the celebrities that appear in
the Shifting Baselines "Ocean Symphony" public
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Heal
the Bay assists in the making of Shifting Baseline’s
off-key "music" PSA for the oceans
Today,
the Shifting Baselines project released the
Ocean
Symphony public service announcement (PSA),
which compares the current state of our oceans
to a cacophonous
celebrity-filled symphony.
The
PSA, which depended on help from Heal the Bay's
own celebrity board members Ingo Rademacher,
of General
Hospital,
and Julia
Louis Dreyfus, of Seinfeld and Watching
Ellie, drives homes the point that the
oceans of the world today are in as much discord
as
a bad symphony. Whether
it's the death of coral reefs, the collapse
of world fisheries, or the appearance of "Dead
Zones," the problems are many and as unpleasant
as the "music" that arises from a
bad symphony.
Shifting
Baselines is a project dedicated to communicating
the reality of the ocean's peril
using
baselines grounded in "how things used to be".
Without such knowledge, it's easy for
each new generation to accept baselines that
have
shifted
dramatically and view empty kelp
beds and coral reefs as "normal". Documenting
and communicating how things are — and
how they used to be — is critical in
making well-informed decisions to restore the
health
of our oceans
to the way they should be.
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