If you think about headlines that you never thought that you'd see, I imagine "ALL FISH GONE FROM EARTH'S SEAS" would be one of them. Well, here we are. We've finally fished all the fish out of the sea.
If fishing around the world continues at its present pace, more and more species will vanish, marine ecosystems will unravel and there will be “global collapse” of all species currently fished, possibly as soon as midcentury, fisheries experts and ecologists are predicting.
That's right. No. More. Fish.
I'm going to say this slowly. This planet is an island. Once we eat up all the fish on the planet, there won't be any more.
And there are way too many people on this planet. Hungry people. We've overpopulated ourselves into a real corner here.
NYT reports further that: Dr. Worm [Get it? Worm? Who says Gaia doesn't have a sense of humor?] said he analyzed the data for the first time on his laptop while he was overseeing a roomful of students taking an exam. What he saw, he said, was “just a smooth line going down.” And when he extrapolated the data into the future “to see where it ends at 100 percent collapse, you arrive at 2048.”
“The hair stood up on the back of my neck and I said, ‘This cannot be true,’ ” he recalled. So he ran the data through his computer again. And then he did calculations by hand. The results were the same.
“I don’t have a crystal ball and I don’t know what the future will bring, but this is a clear trend,” he said. “There is an end in sight, and it is within our lifetimes.”
There's an end to fish in the sea. It's in our lifetimes. It's 2048.
What a fucking, fucking shame. What a fuckng shame that we can't control ourselves or cooperate for the long-term good of our species, our oceans, our world. Maybe, if we'd had a bit more time, we could have learned how to be human.
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This study fucking scares me. It fucking scares me a lot. I've plastered the news reports all over the web, shouted it across all the blogs and forums I frequent, and told everyone I know. People need to hear this.
What's scary is that most just shrug it off.
I mean, Jesus... all the fish in the world, gone. The oceans, the most diverse environment on Earth, dead. Sterile. Empty. Not to mention the millions that will starve...
This is the future, people. And it is bleak beyond description.
As someone who depends on seafood for her continued good health, I find this report horrifying. Granted it's been coming on now for some time. We've been recieving reports for a couple of decades now about dying coral reefs and dwindling stocks of one kind of fish or another. So Iceland recently took up whale hunting again. Uh huh. yeah.
People simply refuse to understand how interconected the whole planet is. When one type of sea critter goes extinct, then both it's predators and prey are thrown off balance. Which causes more extinction. And so on.
Oh, and would someone please remind people that it isn't only the vegetation on land that helps keep the oxigen/ CO2 in balance. The oceans also do that, as much if not more. But they won't be able to continue doing so if all the seacreatures start to go extinct.
We're all tied together.
The loss of all the fish in the sea will, probably sooner rather than later, mean the loss of most or all of life on Earth.
How sad for all of us that we have so neglected our Mother.
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