Re the fisheries, the oceans and the planet - here's how it works: Human populations have exceeded earth's carrying capacity. Our entire species' survival is based on consumerism. We now consume far more than the earth can naturally replace. And that is especially true of the ocean's fisheries. Natural fish stocks have plunged in the preceding 4 decades from overfishing. But the industrial fishing fleets of the world have too much invested to scale back. Quota limits are set by politicians who are complicit in the deceit, and who are being paid off by the fishing magnates. Quota limits exceed every single year without fail the recommended limits by all scientific and research orgs working in the field. Why? - because politicians live by votes, employment figures and lobby funding. It's a race to the bottom before all those thousands of Chinese, Spanish floating fish factories end up on the scrap heap. It's just about the money. When the classic mainline fish stocks crash and decline (Atlantic cod, mackerel, krill, etc) it will produce a cascading collapse of the entire ocean biomass. The oceans produce our oxygen. When the oceans die, we die. It's not rocket science. All the information is freely available online. Educate yourself.
The shark finning business is an insult to any thinking human being. It's just gelatin, dammit. It's tasteless. It is simply an outrageously expensive Asian cuisine status symbol. And for that, we are destroying the oceans. The shark is an essential link in the ocean ecosystem. When the oceans die, we die. Stop the shark fin business.
I once knew a wonderful Austrian goddess who did ceramics as a hobby...She had sculpted 6 large ceramic penises, each different, with an individual slant, and had them lined up like soldiers on an elegant chest of drawers. I was enormously impressed with her creative skills and good taste.
That's a bit radical, isn't it? I can understand avoiding those subjects with guests over dinner, but I cannot imagine not discussing in depth everything and anything with my partner.
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I wanted to die young and have a good-looking corpse. It's too late for that now, so I may as well hang on as long as possibly being ugly.