Oceans in Deep Trouble

june 11, 2003  11:57 am
Oceans in Deep Trouble
A new Pew Report adds to a mounting pile of evidence that the oceans are dying. Andrew Scutro looks at the report and talks to experts about how quickly and how catastrophically humans can damage ocean life, from pollution to overfishing. "It's going to be a war," Dr. Jeremy Jackson, director of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, tells Scutro. "We always do these things, but if we do them late the consequences could be vastly worse than if we'd done them on time."