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Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts) Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:47 PM Nov 2015

Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 [View all]

The apocalypse has a new date: 2048.

That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change.

The study by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, -- with colleagues in the U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Panama -- was an effort to understand what this loss of ocean species might mean to the world.

The researchers analyzed several different kinds of data. Even to these ecology-minded scientists, the results were an unpleasant surprise.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/

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Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 [View all] Katashi_itto Nov 2015 OP

I had heard this prediction in the movie Cowspiracy, which is about the impact of beef production femmedem Nov 2015 #1

A great, depressing movie. blackspade Nov 2015 #18

The movie is "Cowspiracy" justaddh2o Nov 2015 #20

Thank you! I edited the post femmedem Nov 2015 #22

That would imply marine mammal extinction as well. KamaAina Nov 2015 #2

Well played mankind. We'll finally rid ourselves Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2015 #3

Another hundred years or so and we'll turn the planet back over to the cockroaches. lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #4

As go the oceans, so goes the rest. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2015 #5

I hope we can solve enough to keep the dolphins alive. mahina Nov 2015 #6

Dystopian future here we come! Kablooie Nov 2015 #7

Fucking industrialists, oligarchs, corporatists and economic royalists. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #8

I'm going out for sushi tomorrow NightWatcher Nov 2015 #9

The key Snow Leopard Nov 2015 #10

Soylent Green - right on schedule johnnypneumatic Nov 2015 #11

This is why "Environmentalism" without population control is nonsense. nt Romulox Nov 2015 #12

It's not population, it's consumption Scootaloo Nov 2015 #15

We are literally "fucking up" our planet. Betty Karlson Nov 2015 #21

Bookmarked for later verification. hughee99 Nov 2015 #13

K & R mountain grammy Nov 2015 #14

Does this mean no more Oh-Toro? That would be supremely uncool. nt Lucky Luciano Nov 2015 #16

I hardly eat fish anymore for a reason. blackspade Nov 2015 #17

Humans aren't a smart enough species to avoid destruction. Oneironaut Nov 2015 #19

THIS. n/t Triana Nov 2015 #23

"Carrying capacity" is not a theory. We have reached human carrying capacity. And I don't give a.. ChisolmTrailDem Nov 2015 #24

Yea Capitalism!! PowerToThePeople Nov 2015 #25