I know we have a forum for ocean conservancy, but I was afraid this article might bet buried there. It might get moved, but I hope it gets a wider readership first.
The ocean is broken
The ocean is broken
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I know we have a forum for ocean conservancy, but I was afraid this article might bet buried there. It might get moved, but I hope it gets a wider readership first.
The ocean is broken
This discussion started on the pub a week or so ago. I'll tell you here what I said there.
The *disease* is uncontrolled population growth. All the other things we notice, like pollution, over fishing, resource depletion etc etc etc are all symptoms.
Until humans decide to take this weed out by the roots and deal with over population then anything we do is just bailing out the boat while the hole in the bottom keeps getting bigger and bigger.
R..
Let nature take it's course. Starvation, sickness, natural disasters are nature's ways of dealing with over population. Yet every time nature takes action we step in and save lives. We want it both ways and are paying the price.
I didn't respond to you when you said this in the Pub. There are severe ethical problems that need to be addressed before people are just allowed to die horribly because it might be better for everyone else.
It's a very VERY difficult problem and I'm not going to pretend to have any cure-all solutions. I agree with you that we want it both ways and that we, as a species, are not willing to face the hard facts. There may be a way to control it but I don't see signs of people "waking up" in my life time.
Some see it, but few are willing to accept that it's not a problem for "everyone else". It affects every single one of us, regardless of race, creed or political inclination. Until (unless) we come to live in a global society that has the commitment to *reverse* population growth and to do it in a such a way that doesn't destroy the world economy, which depends for 99% on population growth as its main driver, then there is little hope for human kind aside from a disaster of literally biblical proportions.
We started off 250,000 years ago living in caves and throwing sticks and stones at one another and if we're not careful we'll be doing exactly the same again in the future.
R..
We started off 250,000 years ago living in caves and throwing sticks and stones at one another and if we're not careful we'll be doing exactly the same again in the future.
R..