One sailors opinion: "The ocean is broken "

[haikuman]

I would hope this story is just an exaggeration . . . although I fear it is not . . . ymmv

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/184843...n/?cs=2452
By GREG RAY Oct. 18, 2013, 10 p.m.

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it.

Not the absence of sound, exactly.

The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.

And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.

What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.

The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line.

[cbelt3]

Things are indeed going bad in many spots in the ocean. The ocean is the mother of all life on this planet.

[mattkime]

very sad

[kap]

Someone said, "We are either the problem or the solution."

[Carnos Jax]

I have been hearing for awhile now how fish stocks have plummeted over the decades. I've even heard we are now eating fish species that we've never used to eat before (i.e. the common species you hear about on todays dinner tables...tuna, etc.).

[Stephanie]

It's really too bad that we're doing such a lousy job at caring for the planet we were given.

There are no do-overs.

[gabester]

Stephanie wrote:
There are no do-overs.

Tell that to the super-rich who lay claim to most of the wealth of this world. They've failed to care for it properly and sustainably, so perhaps their gain is not rightful but ill-gotten and the trust they've too long been granted by our civilization should be revoked in full and debts tendered in humanity's obligation to one-another and the planet that allows all species to thrive.

Have no doubts, we can feed, house, clothe, educate, provide clean water and sewage, and entertain every person on this planet and preserve the natural wonders for generations to come. We just have to engage the will to do so as a species and trample those who have too much and object to giving some of that up for the betterment of everyone and everything.

Start in the US by capping net wealth per person to $10 million and index that to inflation. Anyone with more than that can set up not-for-profit charitable trusts that serve humanity and planetary preservation. There is still time, and this is an idea whose time has come.

[RgrF]

Stephanie wrote:
It's really too bad that we're doing such a lousy job at caring for the planet we were given.

There are no do-overs.

^^^^^

this

[mrlynn]

gabester wrote:
Start in the US by capping net wealth per person to $10 million and index that to inflation. Anyone with more than that can set up not-for-profit charitable trusts that serve humanity and planetary preservation. There is still time, and this is an idea whose time has come.

Ah, the totalitarian socialists rear their heads under the cloak of do-gooderism.

/Mr Lynn

[pdq]

mrlynn wrote:
[quote=gabester]
Start in the US by capping net wealth per person to $10 million and index that to inflation. Anyone with more than that can set up not-for-profit charitable trusts that serve humanity and planetary preservation. There is still time, and this is an idea whose time has come.

Ah, the totalitarian socialists rear their heads under the cloak of do-gooderism.

/Mr Lynn
The Tragedy of the Commons.

Google it.