World Oceans Day 2011
The World Oceans Day 2011 & 2012 theme is Youth: the Next Wave for Change. World Ocean Day – The Ocean Project
The aim is to challenge participants to view ocean protection as a way of life, with a special emphasis around World Oceans Day each year.
This focus on youth is based on market research by The Ocean Project and others which clearly shows that youth are the most promising members of the public to reach out to if you want to effect lasting change.
Young people are the most knowledgeable and motivated segment of the population when it comes to the environment and its protection. Youth generally have the free time, familiarity with current issues, and the motivation to go out of their way to take environmental actions. Furthermore, the research shows that parents are increasingly looking to their tween and teenage (i.e. ages 12–17) children for information and advice on these issues.
We hope that event organizers will make a concerted effort to reach out to and collaborate with young people, helping inspire them to care for our world’s ocean, now and throughout their lives.
Read more about this topic: World Oceans Day
Famous quotes containing the words world, oceans and/or day:
“Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad when I discover, in oceans and wildernesses far away, the material of a million Concords: indeed, I am lost, unless I discover them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things—”He saw that they were good.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)