The industrialized world we live in today is overdosing our oceans with nutrients such as nitrogen, carbon, iron and phosphorus compounds. These compounds come out of smokestacks, flow into the oceans from fertilized croplands, and seep through septic tanks and sewer lines. This process causes tiny sea plants to riot, then die and drift to the ocean floor. Then bacteria take over and, in a process of breaking down the plant matter, suck all the oxygen out of the water, leaving little or no room for other marine life. The only marine life that can survive are primitive organisms that have evolved. a long time ago, in an ocean without oxygen, so they need little to survive (backgammon). If we don't act, all modern marine life will disappear and primitive organisms will once again rule our oceans. Industrialization is a major contributor to the disappearance of the most evolved marine organisms. From overfishing to overdosing on nutrients in our oceans, it seems we are trying to kill off all the evolved marine life in our seas. Overfishing is a huge factor that we need to take into account. Overfishing occurs when marine species are captured faster than they can reproduce. It seems that these days this is happening more and more to various species. According to Pavan Sukdev, a United Nations environment programmer, "we find ourselves in a situation where forty years later we will have no more fish." This is not good news for the one in five people who rely on fish as their main source of protein (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Overfishing has become such a threat to our oceans that the Save Our Oceans Foundation ranked it number one of the five biggest threats to our oceans. By feeding the oceans with nutrients, we are killing more advanced species of marine life. With these species out of competition for food and shelter, more primitive organisms, which are not as affected by factors like overfishing and too many nutrients in our ocean, are found with an abundance of resources, which brings them to abundance. in population. We've seen it all over the world and the evidence is irrefutable, and the state of our oceans will only get worse if we don't act! Works Cited Jacquet, Jennifer L. “The Rise of Slime”. Scientific blogs. August 18, 2008. Web May 26. 2014 “Overfishing”. Save our maritime foundation. Internet. May 27, 2014 “The Rise of Slime.” New internationalist. January 1, 2007. Web. May 27, 2014 Weiss, Kenneth R. “A Primeval Tide of Toxins.” » Los Angeles time. July 30, 2006. The web. May 26 2014