William H. Avery, an aeronautics researcher whose work led to new ways to propel missiles and aircraft and who helped develop a method of generating energy from the ocean, died June 26 at a retirement home in West Yarmouth, Mass.
While half of the stalwart old planes between the beach's "Welcome" sign and the boardwalk still flourish, the other half, closer to the ocean, died and were replaced with spindly honey-locust saplings.
When these backbones of the ocean die, the repercussions carry throughout the whole ecosystem (if coral reefs are unable to recover from, say, pounding storms, it would affect the million-or-so species that depend on them).
If the oceans die, we all die.
If the oceans die, so do we.
If the oceans die, we die.
As Paul [Watson] says, 'If the oceans die, we die.'".
And as Captain Paul Watson, the founder of Sea Shepherd, correctly says "If the oceans die, we die".
Our oceans are dying, and as Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society continues to warn us: "If the sea dies, we die".
(Spoiler: she walks into the ocean and dies).
