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How AI Is Rescuing the Ocean from a Plastic & Climate Crisis
Kitty Wheeler, AI Magazine Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
The ocean has been absorbing humanity’s mistakes for centuries.
Industrial runoff, agricultural waste and since the 1950s – when global plastic production began its exponential climb from 2 million tonnes annually to over 400 million today – an ever-growing tide of plastic debris.
For decades, the response was linear: deploy more boats, hire more observers and manually collect what could be seen – but it wasn’t working.
By 2050, the WWF estimates there could be more plastic floating in the ocean than fish.
The world’s already living through the prelude – as 90% of seabirds are ingesting plastic, half of marine turtles have consumed it – and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t just an eyesore but an active saboteur of the ocean’s ability to regulate climate.
Read the full article here.
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