The future of our oceans

furrygreyboy

As a passionate scuba diver, this scares the hell out of me...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special

leeho

That is some scary shit and the photos, yeesh!

There was just a brief portrait on Antarctica on NBC's evening news. They say that the ice underneath the glaciers are melting at such a fast rate that there may be no stopping them due to all of the carbon dioxide being trapped under the ice. They will just continue to melt and raise sea levels by lots.

People are royally fucking up. Myself included, as I do use A/C in the summer.

furrygreyboy

The experts can deny global warming all they like, but human impact on the environment has reached a tipping point. I don't spend every waking minute stressing over this, but it's something I do worry about, and feel so powerless and unable to make a difference.

I stopped eating Swordfish years ago when someone told me that they have to grow to a certain size to be able to reproduce, and they were being fished/caught before they were getting to that size, so destined to become extinct. I now rarely eat fish at all, partly b/c I've seen the decline first hand as a scuba diver but also due to a book by Charles Clover called "The End of The Line", which forecasts the end of the fishing industry within 50 years.

So I do what little I can.

Does anyone else feel like this?