No Fishing! Ever!

If all the rest of the crap in the news is not enough to crystallize you into action maybe starving to death will do the trick. It's something that we who actually pay attention to the news coming out of the science world have known for some time but today even the Washington Post manages to stumble upon it.

The world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, according to a study released today by an international group of ecologists and economists.

The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution, and other environmental factors are wiping out important species across the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease.

"We really see the end of the line now," said lead author Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University. "It's within our lifetime. Our children will see a world without seafood if we don't change things."

This is serious stuff folks...do you realize how much of the world's protein comes from the sea? We had better get some people in Washington that can understand and react to the future we are creating for ourselves.