Chagal4's Blog

I just read that fifty percent of the worlds fish were gone! It’s like they looked fifty years ago and they were there (however many that was…) and then they looked recently and fifty percent were gone. Taking into account the worlds oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, ponds and gold fish bowls…that is a lot of missing fish. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised when things go missing…North America once had millions of buffalo…the oceans had thousands of sperm whales…giant sword fish…passenger pigeons. Consider the humble passenger pigeon…My father told me stories of men standing in the street loading and reloading shotguns and firing straight up while thousands of pigeons darkened the sky and fell dead from all that shooting…Humans are so fucking stupid that if they hadn’t discovered the adrenaline rush of killing each other…there would probably be damn near nothing else alive on the planet…oh…maybe cows and chickens…but that’s just a maybe. I’ve seen old photos of the so-called great hunts that the tweedy rich went on…racks of dead birds, rows of dead rabbits, wild boar, lions, tigers, bears and deer…Oh yes…Bambi’s parents, aunts and uncles. I’ve read stories where men described places as being “hunted out”, meaning there was virtually nothing left to kill. We now often hear the same terminology…”fished out”.

So we know that along with the millions and millions of people we’ve knocked off, the toll in animals has been greater still. But I never imagined that I’d read that fifty percent of the fish were gone. I have driven and hiked in clear cut zones where whole forests were chopped down. Looked like the moon. I’ve also stood on the edge of one of North America’s largest open pit mines. It’s in British Columbia. They started more than a century ago with two mountains…They dug until both mountains were completely gone…then they kept digging until there was a hole as deep as those mountains had been high. Quite an achievement! And when the mine gave out…people loaded up their trucks and cars…left the keys in the front door of the house…and hit the road. Well…they weren’t going to be paid to fill in the hole…and you couldn’t pay a mortgage on a house with no job…Fifty percent of the fish!!!

And we have politicians promising tax breaks for the middle class, protecting us from terrorism, and making certain that refugees aren’t really terrorists coming in to steal our jobs…and shoot up the doughnut stores. I say bring them in…immediately and set them up on some fish farms…Hurry!!!

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