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Geography 2050 is a multi-year, strategic dialog about the vital trends that will reshape the geography of our planet in the coming decades. So many trends are combining to have a profound impact on our oceans.  The fate of our planet is linked to the fate of our oceans. For millennia, fishermen, traders, sailors, and explorers used the oceans to connect our planet, to control new territories, and to extract vital resources. The oceans today are inspirations of human culture, engines of economic growth and trade, theaters of geostrategic maneuvering, wildernesses to explore, and sites of ecological exploitation, pollution, and dumping. And, the future boundaries between terrestrial and maritime areas will be in flux due to climate change.

Geography 2050: Future of the World Ocean focuses attention on the life that oceans contain, humanity’s growing reliance upon ocean resources and maritime networks, and how ecological degradation of oceans impact the terrestrial earth and all its inhabitants.