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It has been claimed that fish farming is a sustainable source of food that will help us feed the growing global human population while protecting wild fish populations – but this isn’t true.
“Fish farming is not a substitute for catching wild fish out of the ocean,” says Matthew Hayek at New York University. “In fact, it relies on catching wild fish out of the ocean.”
Hayek and his colleagues have shown that the amount of wild fish killed in order to feed farmed fish is between 27 and 307 per cent higher than previous estimates.
Farmed carnivorous fish eat multiple times more weight in wild fish caught from the ocean than is obtained by farming them, says Hayek. For instance, producing a kilogram of salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 21 2024, @03:56PM (3 children)
By which I mean nation-scale projects, like should we build an irrigation canal from the Mississippi River to Salt Lake City in Utah. That kind of thing is going to be the big fight. I suspect a trade; a desert full of solar panels where it never rains with power lines running opposite direction of the irrigation canal. Someday, the lights will be on in NYC because of the solar panels around SLC, although it might take awhile.
I suspect they will team up on things like urban renewal of areas abandoned by hipster urbanites who don't breed so they disappeared eventually. However culturally unlikely it seems now, someday, San Francisco will be be 90+% Mormon, but the process of getting there will be some turmoil indeed given the current residents cultural demographics, and I suspect the west and east will cooperate across the river to encourage each other.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 21 2024, @04:07PM (2 children)
Perspective is an amazing thing. The Mormons may well culturally conquer the U.S.A. from their SLC stronghold, but it will be a very long process from here, and subject to so many challenges along the way that, from my perspective, it's unlikely to unfold as you predict.
The Chinese and Indians have already played the "show up for the future" cards, somehow in today's world I don't think that's all it's going to take.
Even if 500 years from now we all have ancestry traceable to the Indian sub-continent, and there's still curry restaurants in every major city of the world (there already are, for that matter), it's also a question of culture. Will the young men and women of the future be attending LDS services on a regular basis? From my perspective, I think that's unlikely. From my perspective, it's more likely that we will start seeing Holi celebrations of color, in SLC, first.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 21 2024, @04:24PM (1 child)
I think a key point of my argument is that those who don't, won't reproduce, and after a couple generations of that selection pressure...
I live in a megachurch dominated area, at least for people attending willingly. Some of the money I donate buys food and drink for the young adult singles group parties, and they have child care facilities better than most public or private schools. They know what side of their bread is buttered WRT the source of their future congregation members LOL they plan to grow their own and they're doing a pretty good job, but they're not organized as well as the national religions are organized so I think they can never compete in the long run. I suspect, in the long run, the megachurch that I'm loosely affiliated with is currently vaguely loosely associated with the Lutherans but as they disappear and are bred out, the megachurch will loosely associate themselves with the amish, given where I live.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 21 2024, @05:47PM
The megachurches around here seem to be thriving on the "wealth is Godly" message... DINKs abound in their pews.
Catholics have been shunning birth control and abortion since forever, and they're hanging on, but not exactly thriving in the USA. I live 1/2 mile from a big Catholic church, Choose Life license plates all over the streets, families with 4 and more children all around, and yet... in the long run their strategy seems to not be keeping up with the competition:
"The percentage of Americans who identify as Catholic has decreased from around 25% in 1960 to 22% in 2022. "
But, on the other side of that toast there is more than a little bit of butter:
"The number of Catholics in the United States has increased from 45 million to 72 million."
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