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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: 5, Insightful) by ChrisMaple on Monday October 21 2024, @10:17PM (3 children)
Atheism has been gaining ground for decades, and will ultimately win out. The lies that are religions are self-defeating.
For instance, in the last 30 years or so, historians have been able to demonstrate that the foundations of Christianity are deliberately constructed fables.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday October 22 2024, @04:29PM
Does anyone at church care? Probably not.
The sermons I hear mostly seem to revolve around examples of how to be a better person, how to have a better more successful culture / civilization in general, how to make the world a better place, etc. Nobody at church seems to care if the scientific details of a very old book are correct in the decimal places; the topic never comes up and nobody joined because they're archeology fanboys. Mostly hear a lot about "meet great people" and "enjoy the volunteer work", they like the music, their friends are here, none of which has anything to do with archeology.
Another interesting comparison/contrast is its undeniable that history and legacy mass media are pure propaganda at this point, just complete outright fabrications most of the time, single party political rule, etc. Nobody cares, everyone gets up in the morning, eats breakfast, goes to work, ignores or passively nods at the lies, gets on with life. Sometimes the utter ineffectiveness of propaganda is surprising. You can't collapse civilization by "proving" that George Washington indeed never did chop down that cherry tree.
Another 3rd way to look at it, is you can't get people to stop investing money and time into fandoms like Star Wars, Trek, Hobbit/LOTR, or even capeshit by telling them its fictional. They like the stories, the stories resonate with their lives, some will invest huge amounts of effort and money into those stories they like. They just don't care if they're not true. On a personal note during some bad weather over the last few weeks a fun indoor activity was watching the entire Hobbit movie trilogy. Had a great time, hung out with family, ate junk food. Nobody cared that "The Hobbit" is fictional. "You can't enjoy this movie or spend money on fandom because I say its not true". Yeah, well, good luck with that.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 23 2024, @12:19AM
>and will ultimately win out.
Yea team me! I am on the winning side!!!
I agree, as long as freedom of communication and reasonably accurate reporting of facts continue to increase the way they have for the past 50 years, Atheism is the logical end-game for society.
Now, as Florida and other states are succeeding in fragmenting public education into a lot of religious, charter and home schools, the students so raised learn intolerance for "others" stop speaking a common language of reason and logic... all it takes is a little clipping of the broadband connections and we're back to the 1700s in terms of social direction in the US...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26, @03:55PM
Doesn't seem so clear cut to me. How many children are the atheists having and how many children are the religious having?
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/05/12/chapter-3-demographic-profiles-of-religious-groups/pr_15-05-12_rls_chapter3-07-png/ [pewresearch.org]
The religious tend to have more hope and faith, and more children.
See also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081227133251/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece [archive.org]
https://www.russellmoore.com/2019/12/16/atheists-dont-lie-to-your-children/ [russellmoore.com]
Of course, the flip side is more have children when they shouldn't. But prehistorically, from an evolutionary perspective just popping out kids and hoping for the best is a better strategy in the long term than not popping out kids because there isn't much hope. The former does lead to more suffering though, but the suffering is often more tolerable when you have religion... 😉