Like Seafood? Wake up!

You know, I get tired of posting gloom and doom stuff…but that doesn’t change the fact that our generation is saddled with fixing the mess of the previous generations. Take the world’s oceans: polluted and abused beyond anyone’s knowledge or estimation.

If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse by 2048, a team of ecologists and economists warns in a report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.

“Whether we looked at tide pools or studies over the entire world’s ocean, we saw the same picture emerging. In losing species we lose the productivity and stability of entire ecosystems,” said the lead author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

“I was shocked and disturbed by how consistent these trends are — beyond anything we suspected,” Worm said.

Getting people to recognize and psychologically prepare themselves to make the adjustments necessary to deal with the problems will be the great accomplishment of our times. If we can do it, we will be the next Great generation.

The challenge we face is that humans do not have a truly global consciousness. Globalism is not an evil. It is an absolute necessity. Global mechanisms will foster global consciousness. One of these global mechanisms is global electronic communications. This gives us the information we need from around the world to see what the largest picture looks like.

The next required advance will be a mechanism that helps us turn the font of information we have at our fingertips into a resource of knowledge, and, for once, perhaps we can start to learn prior to making the mistake.

Some mistakes are just too big to fix.