“3/20/2008, 5:36pm EST”
Ocean Deserts on the Rise: Marine Plant and Animal Life Disappearing →
I’m glad this topic is being discussed, but one of the problem’s root causes — if not the root cause — is unwittingly demonstrated in the last line of the opening paragraph: “this could be another blow for the world’s fisheries.”
Translation: the disappearance of marine life is most importantly a blow to human animals.
Isn’t this more of a blow to the marine animals themselves? Or to the entire web of ocean life (not to imply that there is no connection to land-based life)? Of course it is.
Comprehensive studies indicate that a full 90% of large marine animals have disappeared from the oceans this century. And we’re still talking in terms of human whims?
News reports are almost always written primarily in terms of the most immediate impacts for human animals. This is a derivative — and also a perpetuation — of a mindset that imagines human animals to be inherently superior and more important than all other life. Not only is this a baseless assumption, but it also fails to protect human life in the long run.
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