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In reply to the discussion: Sanders: 'To hell with the fossil fuel industry’ [View all]PosterChild
(1,307 posts)62. That's an interesting article . ...
...., and proposes some improvements that can be made
But areas managed for improved biodiversity can and do recover, Worm says, raising the possibility that the trend can be reversed if humans take action.
"Where we [protect marine areas] around the worldfrom the tropics to temperate ecosystemswe see an increase in species diversity and productivity and stability and economic revenue from those ecosystems," he said. ....The study recommends an ecosystem management approach that sets aside some zones completely off-limits to any human activity while opening others to certain uses, such as recreation, research, and fishing. "It's exactly what we do on land, and we've been doing it for a long time," Worm said.
"Where we [protect marine areas] around the worldfrom the tropics to temperate ecosystemswe see an increase in species diversity and productivity and stability and economic revenue from those ecosystems," he said. ....The study recommends an ecosystem management approach that sets aside some zones completely off-limits to any human activity while opening others to certain uses, such as recreation, research, and fishing. "It's exactly what we do on land, and we've been doing it for a long time," Worm said.
No where does he sugest that we abandon fossil fuels. The aproach he recomends is quite reasonable and is, in fact, being implemented - Obama has recently expanded our marine preservation zones.
So what does this have to do with saying to hell with fossil fuels ?
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I'm beginning to think that Sanders might actually be elected President...
First Speaker
Nov 2015
#1
The timing of his campaign's "trajectory" might just be absolutely dead on. It is a campaign of
dinkytron
Nov 2015
#44
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Fritz Walter
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#10
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MisterP
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#14
When We Stand Together - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go
cantbeserious
Nov 2015
#13
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JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#25
We should have told the fossil fuel industry to go to Hell about 40 years ago.
JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#28
Here in Los Angeles, we would use far less fossil fuels if we had better public transportation.
JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#31
Good for him. A true conservative conservationist. My grandfather thought of himself as a
JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#70
Yes! And farmers and others who need gas for their businesses should be allowed to
JDPriestly
Nov 2015
#78
It's the damn "moderate approach" that has gotten us in the huge hole. We need change
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Nov 2015
#46
So you think that a progressive would shut off heat for the poor? Progressives are trying
rhett o rick
Nov 2015
#59
I don't call wanting to get off fossil fuels as extreme. The inaction of the last four decades
rhett o rick
Nov 2015
#64
The alternate to Sanders is more and more of the looting by the wealthy 1%.
rhett o rick
Nov 2015
#69
Iowa generates a third of their energy with wind already.... so it's not that hard.
Luciferous
Nov 2015
#71
Why is it so shocking that a major candidate sides with US against Big Energy? It should not be out
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Nov 2015
#53
Thank you Bernie for speaking truth to power, yet again. I admire your courage. -nt-
99th_Monkey
Nov 2015
#54