Thanks, and So Long to All the Fish

Nope. The Oceans are not an infinite, inexhaustible resource.

Seafood stocks, like many other natural resources, are under heavy pressure from the relentless overproliferation and associated environmental depredations of our species.
Oversight of commercial fishing must be strengthened or there may eventually be no more seafood.

That's the conclusion of a report in today's Science journal that predicts 90% of the fish and shellfish species that are hauled from the ocean to feed people worldwide may be gone by 2048.

Even now, 29% of those species have "collapsed," meaning a 90% decline in the amount being fished from the sea, said Boris Worm, lead author and a professor of marine conservation biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Hope you like farmed Salmon. And Soylent Green.

It is a familiar paradigm for human civilizations: technology advance + cultural advance -> population explosion -> ecological collapse -> cultural collapse -> war, and, frequently, cannibalism. Managing this on a global scale would be a first though.

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