Ocean Project Letter

The Ocean Project

Providence, RI 02906

Dear People,

The United Nations declared 1998 World Ocean Year. I thought we needed one again, and came up with “Sea Emocean” to describe another World Ocean Year. I attended the Nobel Conference in 2012, “Our Global Ocean,” to pitch my idea; I had a website for Sea Emocean for awhile, but have been unable to convince the U. N. to go ahead and declare another World Ocean Year.

Your efforts seem commendable. But I feel that “World Oceans Day” is a blow against your and my ideal of bringing the citizens of the Planet together to act for our common health—because “Oceans” is plural. Is there any way you could change that name? It really gives the wrong idea, in my opinion—that there are multiple oceans and that they—and we—are not connected. The U. S. Navy says they are in “all five oceans,” after all! I would like to see the terms “Sea Emocean” and “Team Worldwide” used for good for people and our musical, populated, common backyard, the blue ring that unites us all.

Why don’t we work with the youngsters to press the U. N. for another World Ocean Year? Please let me know how I could help in this effort, and whether you would be interested in hearing more of my ideas regarding Sea Emocean. For example, governments of inland states could send their kids to experience the coast and enlighten their peoples!

Yours truly,