Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048

[Katashi_itto]

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]

1. I had heard this prediction in the movie Cowspiracy, which is about the impact of beef production

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on the climate.

It is horrible, unthinkable news, but I'm glad it's getting some attention.

[blackspade]

18. A great, depressing movie.

[justaddh2o]

20. The movie is "Cowspiracy"

www.cowspiracy.com

[femmedem]

22. Thank you! I edited the post

to fix my brain fart.

[KamaAina]

2. That would imply marine mammal extinction as well.

Except possibly for baleen whales, who eat krill.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Well played mankind. We'll finally rid ourselves

of those assholes freeloading off of our oceans. as if it was really needed.

[lpbk2713]

4. Another hundred years or so and we'll turn the planet back over to the cockroaches.

If even they survive. The decline is exponential.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. As go the oceans, so goes the rest.

[mahina]

6. I hope we can solve enough to keep the dolphins alive.

Can not imagine the earth without them.

Well that was a bummer.

Thanks though. The more you know, etc.

People suck.

[Kablooie]

7. Dystopian future here we come!

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. Fucking industrialists, oligarchs, corporatists and economic royalists.

[NightWatcher]

9. I'm going out for sushi tomorrow

Grandpa, what was sushi like?
It was amazing, now go eat your soylent green.

[Snow Leopard]

10. The key

Phrase, 'had a new date'

The apocalypse has been predicted so many times it is no wonder people are jaded

[johnnypneumatic]

11. Soylent Green - right on schedule

the oceans are dying
food riots
rioters will be reprocessed....

[Romulox]

12. This is why "Environmentalism" without population control is nonsense. nt

[Scootaloo]

15. It's not population, it's consumption

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]

21. We are literally "fucking up" our planet.

This is why I intend never to procreate. (Admittedly: it's easy to do so when one is gay.)

[hughee99]

13. Bookmarked for later verification.

Call me an optimist.

[mountain grammy]

14. K & R

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Does this mean no more Oh-Toro? That would be supremely uncool. nt

[blackspade]

17. I hardly eat fish anymore for a reason.

I've drastically cut back on beef, pork, and chicken for ecological reasons as well.

[Oneironaut]

19. Humans aren't a smart enough species to avoid destruction.

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]

23. THIS. n/t

[ChisolmTrailDem]

24. "Carrying capacity" is not a theory. We have reached human carrying capacity. And I don't give a..

...crap what they say about earth being able to support 9,000,000,000 humans. Not gonna happen.

[PowerToThePeople]

25. Yea Capitalism!!

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