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It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Why would anybody want to portray Fukushima worse than it already is?
Alas, it is not, on the whole, having much effect on Pacific sea life. At least not outside Fukushima shores. You are aware that the Pacific Ocean is the largest on earth, aren't you? It's 4,900 miles across, for Christ sakes.
But people can (and will) believe what they want. It doesn't make it fact.
Thanks for your response.
...to boys and girls who don't cleanup after themselves.
- They're not allowed to have, nor to keep nice things.
I'm kind of a science geek but the human race has gone through many extinction events. I'm sure you've heard of the *out of Africa* theory where contemporary hominids spread across the globe starting in Africa. what you haven't heard is the extinction event prior to that. From Scientific American an article relates to an ice age where man existed in a narrow band along the south of Africa. The harsh environment left around 500 or so hominids living in caves to survive. Their main and sounds like "only" source of food came from the sea. Nothing I repeat Nothing could survive in the open.
And here we are today, descendants of those few hominids who made it through the extinction period, only now we have no ocean to feed from.
again can I get a life preserver or something! How's about an umbrella, I can turn that upside down and maybe float for a second. Balloons anyone!? I'll pass on the cement shoes but how about some buoyancy so we can all stay afloat as a species in harmony.
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...is the species-specificness of these mass die-offs. Unlike clearly man-made kills from pollution where we kill everything in sight, these die-offs are most often explained as ''normal'' environmental impacts, due to salinity, temperature, etc. And yet no one can say why when this occurs other species often go unaffected. Species that eat the same or similar foods, inhabit the same areas and interact with the other flora and fauna of their environments similarly, and yet the die-offs will many times only happen to specific species as in this case. Just sardines. Just starfish. Just baby sea lions. Just grunts. Just orange-tipped black birds.
- Over and over again, it's the same phenomenon.....
...well I kind of gave up on the sardines three years ago when I learned that America's last sardine cannery (and my favorite brand) was closing.
And I gave up red meat in 2012 and haven't felt better. Besides, the future of ''red'' meat doesn't appeal to me in the least.
- I'm still eating fish on occasion, but everyone waits until I Geiger it first! Seriously.
