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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (147474)	3/30/2019 8:14:48 AM
From: Julius Wong	Respond to of 219081

Our oceans can't handle this type of fishing too much longer. Absolutely disturbing.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (147474)	3/31/2019 12:44:57 PM
From: Joseph Silent	6 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita bull_dozer Cogito Ergo Sum gg cox ggersh and 1 more member Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219081

You will notice that we cannot get off this "efficiency for personal profit" treadmill. --- ravage the oceans (e.g., remove fish, add pollution) --- ravage the soil (e.g., plant crops, add pollution) --- ravage the people (e.g., dazzle them with addictive entertainment, add robots) --- ravage the energy sources (e.g., build more transport, add pollution) --- ravage the solution mechanisms (e.g., market seemingly bright ideas as disruptively beneficial) --- etc etc. This is part of the Myth of Progress (i.e., every day in every way ...... things are getting better and better). :) The odd thing is that when you come home and look around and deal with your family (partner, offspring) you quickly recognize the need for basic conservation efforts, and you take care of things if you have some education and common sense. You know that if you lose balance the problems mount very quickly, and no one will rush to help. Collectively, however, this thinking is absent. There is always some loudmouth in some corner wanting to be elected or wanting a bigger profit and he arranges things to go overboard in some direction, promising the world in the process, while pointing to three bespectacled pointy-heads in lab coats, saying they are at the forefront with imminent solutions to the problems you needless fret over. The above is simply a caricature of the very serious problem we have managed to deeply embed in our DNA. We've lost the ability to think in terms of other than efficiency and profit, and the very important idea of working with "small". I think. Just stop everything for one evening. Or seven. Take a walk and spend time with the trees and birds in your area. The more you are able to do this, the more clearly you see our dilemma.