"Seapspiracy" -- the Netflix documentary.
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We've had it all wrong about climate change. It is man made, but not in the energy/carbon consumption methods we thought. Not by fossil fuel, which is some small part.
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina, is essential reading about capitalism's oceanic depravities, but the documentary is important for our leaders to see. If international leaders have depended on microbiology and scientists to help us through this pandemic, they'd better see how this pandemic arises from destroying life in the oceans.
There are times when we must decide, and it's now. Or we will not just ruin some imagined oceanic food supply. What we've done to oceanic life has affected land life, food supplies across continents, and if we keep ignoring killing oceanic life, we will kill ourselves off, too.
Before it's too late, nations must stop fishing industries and fish farming. To heal the dying oceans means to leave them the fuck alone.
Earth's oceans are not just one of biggest climate change drivers on the planet. It is THE biggest climate change driver on the planet.
This film explains why we are ruining the biggest carbon sink on the planet through internationally governmentally subsidized fishing industries that, by killing off oceanic life, kill the oceans' carbon sink mechanisms that will kill us off no matter if we ended all fossil industries tomorrow.
And from the New York Times (click on the link titles for more videos; some browsers will support a few, though maybe not all).
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/24/world/the-outlaw-ocean.html
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I grew up on the West Coast with fresh salmon, clams, crab, oysters on our dinner plates all the time. The last few years I have rarely enjoyed seafood. For one it is ultra expensive, but mostly it isn't like I remember. It isn't as fresh or as healthy looking or tasting. It has become harder and harder to find quality wild seafood and I refuse to eat farmed.
I have been aware of over-fishing for a long time. My mother married a fisherman for a while and I learned much from him about how hard it had become to make a living fishing "these days" because of international fishing fleets encroaching on boundaries and other problems.
I bought a package of wild 'sockeye' salmon frozen portions at Costco a while back and found it to be mislabeled (no a Kirkland product)--clearly not sockeye. In fact, it looked and tasted like chum salmon.
I refused to shell out $250 for ten pounds of King crab, too.
After watching the documentary I stopped wavering and flat-out declared "No more seafood for me!" My family looked surprised but all agreed it is probably the way to go.
Living in Hawaii now I will say that Ahi (tuna) is over-fished, too. I have seen the tiny sizes coming off local boats and the local consumption is enormous with no slowing down in sight. It will be consumed here until it is all gone. The Japanese love it as well and are fishing it off our waters, so there is competition. Local government and other sources all claim the same BS--Ahi is not being over-fished.
It's worse than just being a plastic sink. It's the complete oceanic ecosystem that enables oceans to be the carbon sink for the planet. When that stops, we and all our petty 'systems' of human concern stop.
We can't wait until everyone's onboard. We have to get key world figure to see the climate science tie to the oceanic biosphere.
Or we're doomed. I don't say that lightly.
Hell, now that I've seen it I can't take anything on DU very seriously anymore. I just can't.
