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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8528)12/8/2006 11:20:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn   of 36921
 
Wharfie, we need a carbonate measure at Mauna Loa to see what the change is over decades. While the Mississippi river might not be doing much more than a day's buffering for the USA [world's biggest consumer], the Dolomites are eroding constantly and so are the white cliffs of Dover. The Nullarbour is dusty and eroding, though via aolian rather than hydraulic processes. Coastlines are coated with shells being ground up.

There is a LOT of carbonate. But let's start counting.

Personally, I don't have a problem with naked lobsters and oysters. Or naked pipis, mussells and tuatuas. Their shells are quite annoying. I bet schnapper don't like the shells too tough either.

Humans are naked and we must look like yummy M&Ms to great white sharks, which New Zealand has stupidly protected as though they are an endangered species. Which is ridiculous. There are swarms of the damn things and a large culling of them would be better to improve our chances of swimming without being eaten.

Sea-going mammals would like to have fewer of them too. Imagine being eaten by one. Hideous. Pilot whales and other whales often beach themselves. I think they are trying to avoid being eaten by damn Great Whites and Killer Whales [now called "Orca"] which cruise around the coast, scoffing cute little Hector's dolphin [not many of them left and they DO need protecting] and anybody else who they bump into.

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