""For all at last return to the sea... like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end." It was written more than a decade before her hugely influential book Silent Spring (1962) galvanised the 1960s environmental movement. Today, as our oceans heat up and marine habitats deteriorate, Carson's emphasis on the planet's interconnectedness and dependence on the sea as both the beginning and end of all living existence has never been more pertinent."
"Homo sapiens may be land dwellers but the oceans that cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface are essential for our survival. As well as providing food and energy the sea also produces around 50% of the earth's oxygen and absorbs around 30% of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, acting as a carbon sink and climate regulator also comes at the cost of greater acidification and oceanic warming,"
The oceans cover over 70% of Earth's surface and are essential for human survival, providing food, energy, roughly half of global oxygen and absorbing about 30% of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide. Acting as a carbon sink contributes to greater acidification and ocean warming, while plastic and chemical pollution and overfishing further degrade marine habitats. The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art exhibition For All at Last Return presents 13 international artists who focus on ocean health. Works range from Bianca Bondi's adorned skeletons of threatened dolphins to Kristina Ollek's rotating sculptures inspired by deep-sea polymetallic nodules, highlighting potential impacts of deep-sea mining.
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