Najma Sadeque in DAWN:
If fish and other marine life could speak their minds, they would condemn humans as the dirtiest life forms on earth and a threat to all life – notwithstanding claims to ‘civilisation’. They wouldn’t be far wrong. Unknown to most, 80 per cent of the sewage produced by the world’s six billion humans, plus as much industrial and agro-chemical waste, pour into the oceans in unbroken, continuous streams.
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