Very simple answer: I love the ocean and rivers and the deadzone needs to be fixed. The places I visited and had so much joy in as a child are changing very quickly. The rivers I swam and fished in now have algae problems and are warmer, the lakes I swam in are almost completely unsafe for human swimming, and the ocean, my beloved... I can feel it on my skin and in the stones when I visit. There is less there, when diving and fishing and even in the tide pools out west. There is less life in her and it genuinely fucks me up. I wanna have kids, and I wanna share these things with them. As it is now, they won't know because of what is being done.

Okay so. Background is that there is a big hypoxic zone (no dissolved oxygen) in the gulf of Mexico. This is contributed to by excessive runoff from Agriculture and development. Basically extra nutrients go from lil canals to river systems to big Mississippi. This causes big algae blooms and massive dies offs and what is called eutriphication. Which is bodies of water aging before their time.

We knew this was happening for decades. We still know it's happening. The whole reason I went back to school was to work on this issue. (Goal: I will remove 10% of the excesses nutrients in the Mississippi) . I got a job as a research assistant to work on this.

No one, and I mean no one, is actually working on fixing it. Everyone is monitoring water systems or trying to work on more legislation.

That doesn't do anything /because it is already there./

It'd be like trying to prevent global warming but you can't because it's already warm. Only more because literally it's actively dying (reef bleaching, said hypoxic zone, record algae blooms, the crabs disapearing.)

Anyway, I thought somebody would be working on it ( I have read hundreds of research papers, largely on phytoremediation and rhizo-bacterial remediation) and there are methods that do show that they can work but fucking??? Nobody ??? Is doing out of lab testing or implementing these measures???