CNN International Shove Your Krill Up Your Ass - The Ice Is Melting Like Never Before

[PaulX2]

I'm on vacation watching CNN International. They keep babbling about krill helping "combat" climate change. A couple krill will not offset the trillions of tons of carbon being put into the atmosphere by gasoline, gas, and coal burning. Stop trying to "make us feel good" about krill while you distract us from the real problem.

The ice is melting, and most major cities will be underwater in a couple decades. The fires hurricanes and floods are getting worse along with torrential rain and record droughts. All as the temperatures rise like crazy.

Put A REAL carbon tax on every carbon fuel and use the money to offset the carbon 150%.

We may survive if we plant enough trees or develop some other form of sequestration starting today.....

And no one ever talks about ocean acidification and the reefs dying along with the rest of the ocean.

[Calculating]

1. I'm sure we'll get right on it once there's no longer a madman running our country

Good luck with anything on the climate front until 2020. Right now the goal is just to get there without another great depression or nukes raining down from the sky.

[WePurrsevere]

2. The krill population is rapidly declining. Relying on it...

to combat climate change is foolish. We need to take steps to preserve and build the krill population back up for plenty of other reasons though.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/krill-are-disappearing-from-antarctic-waters/

[hatrack]

4. Yes, and we're fishing krill now . . .

For livestock and aquaculture feed and bait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krill_fishery

Total biomass is about 379 million tons (estimated) of which about half is eaten in the wild by whales and fish.

Human take is pretty small so far, but with sea ice shrinking rapidly (and the krill need sea ice to feed and reproduce) who knows how long that estimated population can hold up.

[WePurrsevere]

7. Humans are also ingesting a lot of krill as Omega 3 supplements.

While I'm all for supplements when needed, I wish more would look for ways to get Omega oil that won't cause a problem like krill is. I personally prefer Hemp Oil since it's much more environmentally friendly.

[hatrack]

8. Purslane is a better source, and you can grow it yourself . .

Hell, if purslane gets established in your garden, you can't kill it with a hammer.

But now, let's keep on strip-mining the oceans for our Omega-3 supplement pills . . . .

[WePurrsevere]

9. Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that about Purslane, I just...

Discovered hemp (and evening primrose) oil a while ago when looking for alternatives to fish oil.
(FWIW I've never taken krill.)

[MLAA]

3. We all need to stop eating animal products. Live stock uses so much more resources than plants.

With the added benefit of better health and no torture.

[Calculating]

5. Exactly

Humans have no fundamental need for meat in their diet and it's one of the least efficient ways to feed ourselves. I'm not a full vegetarian, but I do try to minimize my meat consumption.

[Doremus]

6. Absolutely!

1. Better for the environment
2. Humane
3. Healthy

Or ...
we can keep killing the planet and ourselves because we can't see farther than the next drive thru meal.