168 countries have ratified The Law of the Sea, but in America it's long been reviled by the likes of Ronald Reagan and notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, who deployed “a classic tactic of fear-mongering about global socialism, shit-talking the UN and shoehorning Cuba in for good measure” 13/

John Oliver argues The Law of the Sea should finally be ratified, and The International Seabed Authority must be purged of people who are beholden to mining interests. 14/