Job Loss on Planet Write-Off

[talktooloose]

Two shocking news stories in the last week:

1. "…if current trends in the global fishery continue, the world's oceans could effectively be empty by 2050. "
   
2. I don't have the exact quote, but the gist is that the pine forests of BC could be wiped out completely by disease.

What shocked me, maybe even more than the facts themselves were that the news stories were both presented as business stories with the emphasis on the fact that fishing and forestry industries will suffer.

HELLO? Fish in the ocean! Gone! Forests in BC! Gone! This is not just about people needing to migrate to careers in IT!

This is about how in less than two centuries, we as a society have been able to strip mine the planet and how no one seems to be particularly alarmed.

This is about the phrase, "There's lots of fish in the sea" which you tell someone after a breakup becoming meaningless.

This is about the phrase, "Can't see the forest for the trees."

This is about starvation and disease and greed.

This is about the myopia of the media and their moral hollow.

Comments

[eversearching.livejournal.com]

Could you provide a link to those stories?

Those are pretty shocking and horrifying.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

The fish (http://tinyurl.com/y6ddhu) article. You may need free NYTimes registration.

hmm, CBC is having trouble with its website now and I can't get you the forestry article.