申論題內容
8.Over the last few years, our understanding of the impacts of anthropogenic activities on marine
biodiversity has increased. Science and technology have opened up new frontiers in the oceans. What
was once regarded as featureless, unchanging and inexhaustible is now known to be complex, dynamic
and finite. These same advances are also increasing human impacts on remote, deep and little known
areas. Once limited largely to shipping and high seas fishing, commercial activities at sea are expanding
rapidly and plunging ever deeper. Deep sea fishing, marine scientific research and energy development,
are already taking place at significant depths. Military operations and seismic exploration have also
intensified throughout the oceans, with growing impacts on deep water and high seas ecosystems and
biodiversity. While the prospects of commercial deep sea bed mining are still uncertain, efforts
worldwide to develop the deep sea resources facilitated by advances in technologies are likely to grow
more systematically (UN General Assembly, A/62/66/Add.2, page 8-9).(20分)