Oceans Empty By 2048?

F34nor writes to mention a CBS news article about the depopulation of ocean species. According to a study by a scientist in Halifax, Nova Scotia and assisted by research from all around the world, the world's oceans will be emptied of large lifeforms by 2048. From the article: "Already, 29% of edible fish and seafood species have declined by 90% — a drop that means the collapse of these fisheries. But the issue isn't just having seafood on our plates. Ocean species filter toxins from the water. They protect shorelines. And they reduce the risks of algae blooms such as the red tide. 'A large and increasing proportion of our population lives close to the coast; thus the loss of services such as flood control and waste detoxification can have disastrous consequences,' Worm and colleagues say."

Comments

Re:what a hard-nosed skeptic you are

[jcr]

Oh, get over yourself. People have been predicting the Malthusian doom of mankind and the planet forever, and people like you have been sneering at the skeptics every time. But don't worry, I'm sure you can save us all from ourselves if you just work yourself into enough of a snit.

-jcr

Re:just keep makin' babies

[tres]

You "generation next" Green Day wannabe punk rock pussies crack me up.

As scary as it is with George 'Nookleer' Bush at the helm, you kids have it easy. You'll never know what it was like when things were really bad. You'll never understand what it was like when nuclear self-assured mutual destruction was a question of when not if.

Someone talks about impending doom 50 years down the road and you start feeling like you've got something to piss and wail about? Fuck, man we lived through Reagan, we lived through the disaster the first Bush was and now we're living through the disaster of his legacy. We lived through the fall of the Soviet Union and we'll probably live through the fall of the United States as we know it... But you know what, we have and we will keep on going. If your pussy hurts too much to keep going, well then sit down, shut the fuck up and die. The rest of us will keep on living life.

You first, jackass

[Scareduck]

Seriously, I've seen clowns like you all over the peak oil websites and at creepy-ass websites like (mis)anthropik.com. Why don't you hire someone to take a baseball bat between your beady, hateful eyes and put the rest of us out of our misery?