holy mackerel, get em while they last

[treebing]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/scienc...=1&src=recg

This is a far too common tale. The idea that our resources are limitless and only there to make money off of. What blows me a way is how stupid it is. We take 11 tons of mackerel to make 1 ton of farm raised salmon. And farm raised salmon is terrible. Its the same phenomenon where a tree loving person gets asked to cut down a beautiful old distinguished and invaluable "priceless" TREE for some jackass. The Arborist know that the tree is going to get cut down no matter, this has been clearly stated. Whether he cuts the tree or some other hack cuts it down, the tree is going to get cut down. Hes got a nasty credit card debt and he got to make his payments on the new super chipper he got during the last ice storm. His kid needs braces. The tree gets whacked. What sucks is that i've done it and I've watched the trees get smaller and smaller.

Better get to the fish store while it lasts. we may all be soon eating tilapia and jellyfish.

 

[islandarb]

Here on my island fish resources have been declining at a rapid rate. When I was a kid forty years ago you only had to go 10 feet and fish swarmed you, it was really cool. The reefs were vibrant.No longer the case the fish have migrated to deeper water to survive very sad. Coming from a commercial spearfishing background , I have seen the effects of over fishing to pay for boats, gear etc all too often ( reason I stopped ). Our children and grandchildren will be the ones to suffer. Now doing tree work the same thing is going on, healthy trees being removed in order for progress with such dirty words as development and future investment being thrown around. Not that these developments replant trees of the very kind being removed. The world is heading in a sad direction because of greed. Swing.

 

[oceans]

With time, all things will eventually heal. I sometimes think about what our world is like now, and how we can be so driven to keep it this way. Species extinction is a huge deal, but everything that is here now was once not. The world beyond our scope may be the best one ever.

Impermanence is the only thing permanent. Unpredictability is the only thing predictable.

Just keep planting more and more trees. Keep creating bio-diverse landscape designs and installations. Keep selling limb and crown reductions versus hacking and removals when ever you can. Keep fighting the good fight, whatever it is that you are doing. Every little bit helps!

 

[TLHamel]

[ QUOTE ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/scienc...=1&src=recg

This is a far too common tale. The idea that our resources are limitless and only there to make money off of. What blows me a way is how stupid it is. We take 11 tons of mackerel to make 1 ton of farm raised salmon. And farm raised salmon is terrible. Its the same phenomenon where a tree loving person gets asked to cut down a beautiful old distinguished and invaluable "priceless" TREE for some jackass. The Arborist know that the tree is going to get cut down no matter, this has been clearly stated. Whether he cuts the tree or some other hack cuts it down, the tree is going to get cut down. Hes got a nasty credit card debt and he got to make his payments on the new super chipper he got during the last ice storm. His kid needs braces. The tree gets whacked. What sucks is that i've done it and I've watched the trees get smaller and smaller.

Better get to the fish store while it lasts. we may all be soon eating tilapia and jellyfish.

[/ QUOTE ]

Hear, hear!

 

[Mr_B]

“It’s going fast,” he said as he looked at the 57-foot boat. “We’ve got to fish harder before it’s all gone.”


That sums it all up for me. If everyone who thought like that suddenly thought the opposite, we should STOP fishing before it's all gone, how fruitful our oceans could be!

 

[Daniel]

[ QUOTE ]
With time, all things will eventually heal.

[/ QUOTE ] Tell that to the Martians.

 

[Blinky]

National Geographic had a great article a while back about 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier predator fish and how much fish from a lower tier it takes to raise one from a higher tier.

Bottom line, we need to be eating 3rd or 4th tier fish, not 1st and 2nd like we do now.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Since humans are at the top of most food and use tiers take a second and think about how the depletion of the tiers below us is destabilzing the foundations that we live on. At what point does the Earth crack and collapse? If the tiers immediately below us are gone are we already physically in decline?