A comprehensive new study reports that if current trends of over-fishing and polluting the oceans continue, the ocean will essentially become devoid of most marine life by 2048. Our grandchildren may never know what seafood is (except maybe for jellyfish, which can probably survive in any condition).
I don’t know about anyone else, but leaving a huge, lifeless septic tank of an ocean system with jellyfish floating around is not the kind of legacy I’d enjoy leaving for humans for millions of years after such a catastrophe. There are, however, concrete steps that can be taken to stop this from happening: fertilizer runoff can be curtailed, fishing can be limited to sustainable levels, and so on.
Most importantly, we have to keep the pressure on our leaders to get off their lazy, fearful political asses and DO something about climate change and ecosystem collapse.
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I shocks and saddens me that there have been no comments on this article so far. Does anyone realize the absolute magnitude of the disaster that losing the life in our planet’s oceans would be to the survival of all life on earth? We have raped and pillaged the oceans for so long and no one seems to care or even understand what this means. The earth cannot survive the loss of the living oceans. We do not even yet understand the far-reaching impact of this part of our planet on all life on the planet. My only consolation is that I will not be alive in 2048, but the decline and its consequences will be somthing that our children will inherit, if there are any of them left. I am so distressed by the greed and recklessness of the human species that it shames me to be a part of it.
I hear you. I hope/intend to still be alive in 2048, even if i’m in my dottage…and I hope to God we wake up as a country and as a world to the ecological disasters that are unfolding, and how they could impact our own civilization (of which Katrina was only a small preview.)
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