The Wild Wet?

The 'high seas' don't belong to anyone. This status as 'commons' has resulted in oceans being treated 'recklessly and with impunity'. United Nations member states are gathering in New York to produce a treaty to provide more protections for the oceans (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/15/un-member-states-meet-new-york-hammer-out-high-seas-treaty). Protections for marine habitats, is a nice (and necessary) concept but I wouldn't hold your breath. Nation states are uniformly ineffective in regulating the Marine Protected Areas (MPA), within their territorial waters (if they have any). MPAs are largely tokenistic. Can we really expect more effective protections of 'the high seas'? The seas are treated, as they always have been, as a medium for transport, exploitation and dumping. Our oceans are a kind of 'wild west', where laws have minimal impact and 'might is right'. People, in general, largely do as they please. It's difficult to even monitor what is going on. To paraphrase, 'good intentions, butter no parsnips'! Getting agreements on protecting our seas and then enforcing them, could well be next to impossible.