So, catch and release is included in this number. That makes the number very believable to me.
One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
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Re: One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure about that; higher birth rates are associated with poverty, not wealth. Also, I feel that these appeals often suggest that we should be OK with letting some unspecified Other die for the cause of environmentalism when we would clearly not accept this for ourselves.
>I'm not sure about that; higher birth rates are associated with poverty, not wealth. Who said anything about wealth? That sounds like a red herring to me. In any ecosystem, with any living organism, a population will increase until it reaches the limit of its food supply. >Also, I feel that these appeals often suggest that we should be OK with letting some unspecified Other die for the cause of environmentalism when…
I have really come to dislike the term "virtue signaling," since it seems to just be a more socially acceptable way of calling your interlocutor a sissy for caring about something. If pointing out the troubling moral implications of following a line of argument to the end is "virtue signaling" then the semantic space occupied by the word is so broad that it's meaningless.
As for the food supply stuff: animal populations can be constrained by factors other than food supply, particular when we're talking about a population which is capable of reason. You yourself seem to acknowledge this when you propose offering condoms, which would be a nonsensical suggestion if you truly believed that the only thing affecting population size was food supply. Therefore, I do not believe it is necessary for the sake of the planet to deliberately allow people to die of starvation.
Re: One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that change blindness, I wonder if an interesting component of teaching history could be to emphasize 'things you would find jaw-droppingly different if you were dropped back in time'? Precise arrangements for where/when to meet ("at 10:10, on the corner of mumble and mumble") - because no cell phones. Boston Python, having an unusually large turnout... so someone needed to pull up an extra chair to the confere…
extinct and unGoogleable Christmas Tree Birds Wait a second, what are "Christmas Tree Birds"?
Christmas trees used to have candles. So a flock of flame-colored birds sitting in trees resembled Christmas trees with candle flames. Thus a (nick?)name, "Christmas-tree birds". My very fuzzy recollection is 1600's Manhattan. So perhaps I saw it in the Mannahatta exhibit/project/book? But I don't quickly see it on [1]. And Google/Bing are giving me nothing related.
Upon reflection, I'm now unsure the "yell to be heard in Manhattan" story was the same bird - I may well be folding together two stories there.
Re: One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never understood why such changes -- dramatic as they may be -- were seen as a cause of concern, except in cases where the changes affected our food supply. Humans may be responsible for the decimation or outright extinction of entire species, but isn't that how Nature works? Nature has encountered countless extinctions before us (where's the Megalodon now?) and at least 5 mass extinctions, so why should this dynam…
> but isn't that how Nature works? Nature has encountered countless extinctions before us (where's the Megalodon now?) and at least 5 mass extinctions, so why should this dynamic cease now? This mass extinction caused by humans is an order of magnitude faster and affects far more varity of species and plants.
Because we can bubble up and push beyond the point of no return..
a second venus.