Post by KNOWTHIS on Jun 28, 2008 3:06:33 GMT -5
I’m sick of the piece of shit news media never covering any of this stuff. The planet is falling apart piece by piece and we can’t even have a serious national dialogue about it because most Americans are completely oblivious to their own approaching fate. Instead we get a daily dose of pointless tabloid filth. People at other forums chat about the trivial and superficial. Where Have All the Rational Minds Gone?
The trilogy, social, economic and environmental devastation is upon us.
www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5265.0.106.0
Where Have All the Fish Gone?
hen explorer John Cabot discovered mainland North America in 1497—touching down in what is probably Newfoundland or Labrador today—he found the most fantastic fishing grounds the world has ever seen. The waters teemed with ocean life.
When Cabot returned with stories of the Grand Banks, where cod appeared so thick that a person “could walk across their backs” and they could be caught by just scooping them out of the water with wicker baskets, the news sparked a mania. The Northwest Atlantic fishery was born, an industry that would help feed the world for centuries to come. Besides the fact that whole provinces of the New World were settled just to harvest this seemingly limitless bounty, this food source eventually fostered in the tiny island nation of England the wealth, skills and shipbuilding capacity that would help transform it into a global empire and change the world forever.
Today, the Grand Banks are fished out. The cod are gone, and so are the commercial stocks of flounder, Greenland halibut, and redfish.
The story of the Grand Banks is not as isolated as one might hope. Industrialized fishing and poor environmental stewardship are destroying the planet’s biggest resource—its oceans. Ocean fisheries could be facing collapse. Ninety years of methodical, mechanized overfishing have left many of the world’s most productive fishing zones dead, dying or on the edge of ecological disintegration.
“We Are at the Tipping Point”....
The trilogy, social, economic and environmental devastation is upon us.
www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=5265.0.106.0
Where Have All the Fish Gone?
hen explorer John Cabot discovered mainland North America in 1497—touching down in what is probably Newfoundland or Labrador today—he found the most fantastic fishing grounds the world has ever seen. The waters teemed with ocean life.
When Cabot returned with stories of the Grand Banks, where cod appeared so thick that a person “could walk across their backs” and they could be caught by just scooping them out of the water with wicker baskets, the news sparked a mania. The Northwest Atlantic fishery was born, an industry that would help feed the world for centuries to come. Besides the fact that whole provinces of the New World were settled just to harvest this seemingly limitless bounty, this food source eventually fostered in the tiny island nation of England the wealth, skills and shipbuilding capacity that would help transform it into a global empire and change the world forever.
Today, the Grand Banks are fished out. The cod are gone, and so are the commercial stocks of flounder, Greenland halibut, and redfish.
The story of the Grand Banks is not as isolated as one might hope. Industrialized fishing and poor environmental stewardship are destroying the planet’s biggest resource—its oceans. Ocean fisheries could be facing collapse. Ninety years of methodical, mechanized overfishing have left many of the world’s most productive fishing zones dead, dying or on the edge of ecological disintegration.
“We Are at the Tipping Point”....