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- The Mediterranean, a dead sea in 15 years.

- All the scientists are unanimous that is what will happen if nothing is done to check the destruction to which the Mediterranean,

- a real basin surrounded by water, is even more exposed than the other seas or oceans.

- Today’s fishing are not like it used to;

- a shoal of sardines this very same day offshore Bandol that was almost a miracle.

- Tuna has completely disappeared from the Mediterranean sea, soon it will be anchovy’s turn.

- Fishing was done blindly to satisfy the demand from the canning factories

- and above all the sea has become the wide bin of men’s industry.

- Solitary, in his Embiez Island, always listening to the sea, Alain Bombard calls for another alert.

- If we go on doing what we are doing now; that is to say to consider the Mediterranean as the last bin of the large cities, large industries, and so on,

- the Mediterranean sea will be a dead sea, without any doubt;

- because there is over fishing and an impossible reproduction because of the pollution of the coasts.

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- If you want, when you have pollution, immediate, you have immediate danger.

- Then comes dilution.

- We may say that this danger is short.

- But you can never plan the effect of this pollution on the long run.

- For instance, what will be the effect of its deposit at the bottom of the sea, what will be the effect through transportation at some distance from the place where it was thrown.

- So you have things we now know about the toxicity; for instance hydrocarbon.

- for instance hydrocarbon.

- Hydrocarbon, the biggest problem of hydrocarbon;

- apart from the fact that it stop the oxygenation of the sea;

- that is, you know that hydrocarbon on the long run could be a drama for the atmosphere,

- you know that 80% of the oxygen of the air comes from the sea because of the penetration of light in the plankton layers that go down to 200 meters deep.

- You know that the more technical civilization develops, the bigger oxygen needs are.

- For example, men on the surface of the Earth are 3 billion and a half and of course consume through the breathing of oxygen.

- And last year, that is to say from August 71 to August 72, the quantity of oxygen that had been consumed was calculated only through the combustion of hydrocarbon.

- Gas,

- diesel and so on.

- And the respiratory equivalent of 45 billion men was reached.

- In his lab, the Alain Bombard team analyses, scrutinizes the bottom of the sea, and can only notice the imbalance that was born from any forms of pollutions.

- And without any natural balance / it is animal and vegetable life that is put into question.

- It is possible to do plenty of things but a change of politics is needed.

- That is to say that first we have to be conscious of danger.

- And now, for example look at what is now happening regarding the fight against Italian red muds.

- The French shouts very loud because the Italians pollute the sea and that it may pollute Corsica.

- When in France we had red mud in 1963;

- besides, different, much less toxic, but that are however threatening for the fauna and the sea flora;

- in Cassis, very close from here;

- well, the French press did little;

- I don’t say the press because they were brave;

- but let’s say that scientific domains moved very little so now but now it is about Italy.I don’t want to say that we are wrong to make a fuss when it is about Italy;

- I don't want to say that we are wrong to make a fuss when it is about Italy;

- but here is exactly the type of things one ought not to do.

- We all stand together against of all the pollutions done in the world, in the air and in the seas.

- Men are separated by frontiers, men are separated by politics, they are separated by ideologies, are sadly again separated by colors;

- but they are united by air and water.

- Pollution produced in Genoa is now offshore Saint Tropez.

- The entire problem is:

- will we be people with a good conscience who will wait that everything deteriorate and that will be to late.

- Look at the history of Alp lakes that, apart from Annecy lake;

- because the Annecy lake, because on the Annecy lake, an anti-pollution system was planned 20 years ago, 20 years ago!

- And the Annecy lake is the only lake in the Alps where there is more fish than before, even though there are more visitors and tourists,

- all the others are dead.

- And we don’t know how to bring them back to life.

- The great American lakes are dead;

- the Mediterranean sea ought not to become the first sea

- about which we would say here is the example that cannot be followed, look after the oceans as oceans are also threatened.

- The report is unanimous. Everyone knows the solution, it is about politics.

- And still in this small fortified laboratory, Alain Bombard remains isolated.