June 8: World day of oceans

8 juin, journée mondiale de l’océan

L’éphéméride par Sandrine Chesnel lundi 8 juin 2015

C’est la journée mondiale des océans © MaxPPP

Nos océans représentent plus de 70% de la surface de la Terre. Une bonne raison de veiller à les préserver.

Our oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface. A good reason to preserve them.

Lundi 8 juin 2015,
159 ème jour de l’année

Le fait du jour

Aujourd’hui c’est la journée mondiale de l’océan. L’idée, avec cette journée spéciale, c’est d’essayer de se rappeler au moins une fois par an combien notre vie de tous les jours dépend de la santé des mers qui nous entourent. Pour cela, rien de mieux qu’une série de chiffres :

– 70% de la surface de notre bonne vieille terre est recouverte par les océans,
– 97% de l’eau disponible sur Terre est stockée dans les océans,
– 40% des océans sont considérés comme lourdement affectés par les activités humaines, à savoir la pollution, la diminution des stocks de poissons, ou bien encore la destruction des fonds marins …

Today is the World Day of the Ocean. The idea, with this special day is to try to draw attention to, at least once per year, how much every day of our life depends on the health of the sea that surrounds us. None better than this series of figures demonstrates:

-70% of the surface of our good old earth is covered by oceans.                              – 97% of the available water on Earth is stocked in the oceans.                                – 40% of the oceans are considered heavily affected by human activity, like pollution, diminution of fish stocks, and the destruction of marine habitats..   

Parmi les menaces qui pèsent sur les océans, et donc sur nous, le plastique – chaque seconde, des dizaines de tonnes de plastique sont jetées à la mer – des déchets qui, sous l’effet des courants, finissent par former le 7e continent – un continent de plastique qui nous survivra tous. Raison de plus pour accepter sans trop râler de se passer des sacs plastiques, et de réhabiliter pour nos courses le bon vieux cabas de nos grand-mères…

Among the menaces that weigh heavily on our oceans, and so on us, plastic – every second, tens of tonnes of plastic are thrown into the sea – waste that, due to currents, end up forming the 7th continent – a continent of plastic that will outlive us all. All the more reason to accept without delay what happens plastic bags, and to keep our old shopping bags and bottles etc out of the seas..  

Les fêtes du jour (Celebrate the day)

A noter aussi dans votre éphéméride de ce lundi, l’anniversaire de la sortie en librairie de 1984, le roman d’anticipation de Georges Orwell, il y a 66 ans. Enfin en ce 8 juin, n’oubliez pas de fêter !

We commemorate this Monday 8th June, the 66th anniversary of the publication of the book “1984” by George Orwell. So don’t forget to celebrate it. Orwell’s satirical work set itself in Oceania, a super-state at constant war, where information and history is altered by the authorities, to fool the people. (A bit like some super-states nowadays that ignore climate change and alter undeniable facts for their own commercial ends). QED!

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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