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The apocalypse has a new date: 2048.
That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change.
The study by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, -- with colleagues in the U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Panama -- was an effort to understand what this loss of ocean species might mean to the world.
The researchers analyzed several different kinds of data. Even to these ecology-minded scientists, the results were an unpleasant surprise.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/

femmedem
(8,482 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:07 AM - Edit history (1)
on the climate.
It is horrible, unthinkable news, but I'm glad it's getting some attention.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)justaddh2o
(69 posts)www.cowspiracy.com
femmedem
(8,482 posts)to fix my brain fart.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Except possibly for baleen whales, who eat krill.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,760 posts)of those assholes freeloading off of our oceans. as if it was really needed.
lpbk2713
(43,203 posts)If even they survive. The decline is exponential.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)mahina
(19,391 posts)Can not imagine the earth without them.
Well that was a bummer.
Thanks though. The more you know, etc.
People suck.
Kablooie
(18,834 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)NightWatcher
(39,360 posts)Grandpa, what was sushi like?
It was amazing, now go eat your soylent green.
Snow Leopard
(348 posts)Phrase, 'had a new date'
The apocalypse has been predicted so many times it is no wonder people are jaded
johnnypneumatic
(599 posts)the oceans are dying
food riots
rioters will be reprocessed....
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Most of the fish that gets caught is either "worthless" bycatch for big-ticket items. Out of what's left, a VERY large amount is turned into food for other animals under domestication. Rather little seafood actually lands on human plates
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)This is why I intend never to procreate. (Admittedly: it's easy to do so when one is gay.)
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Call me an optimist.
mountain grammy
(27,521 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,568 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)I've drastically cut back on beef, pork, and chicken for ecological reasons as well.
Oneironaut
(5,897 posts)We're bound by the same problem every animal has on earth (if given the opportunity). If our population grows too large, we eat everything around us out of existence (which, unfortunately, happens to be the whole planet). Then, when resources become scarce, we die in huge numbers until we're well below our carrying capacity. We're over our capacity now, so we're on borrowed time.
There's no incentive as a species not to kill ourselves by consuming all available resources. We're not a rational species. We settle the cognitive dissonance of what we're doing by telling ourselves that it's all a bunch of lies, that technology will prevent it from happening, and that it's really not going to be as bad as it seems. I don't see a future for current society beyond 200 years from now.
Triana
(22,666 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)...crap what they say about earth being able to support 9,000,000,000 humans. Not gonna happen.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)eom