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I like your optimism; wish I shared it. But, with what I've been witnessing on the ocean day in/day out for decades, I can't.

Why not? The Clean Water Act works. I'm not sure what part of the ocean you're looking at, specifically - but almost every measure of water pollution has improved over the last 50 years:

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/jon-devine/fifty-years-af...

...even while population, economic growth, and development has galloped along. Population growth and economic growth are not ineluctably tied to environmental damage growing. You can have both (we've had both) economic and population growth for decades while pollution has fallen.

Whatever you're witnessing on the ocean is almost certainly the result of political and societal choices - not the inescapable consequences of economic growth.

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