The Return

the japanese have invented a realistic replacement for shark cartilage. what this essentially means is that the sharks fin industry can now have a viable alternative instead of real sharks fins. what this means is that potentially, the current savage practice of stripping a shark of its fins and flinging it back into the seas (to drown and die and be at the bleeding mercy of other sharks) could be curbed dramatically. with the decrease of such acts tantamounting to massacre, the shark population have hope.

of course there is the repercussory effects on the oceanic food chain, since sharks sit second on the predator list right below Humans.

on an indirectly related note, we are overfishing, the seas are becoming too gleaned of fish. with the current rapidly dwindling fish supplies and human population explosions, we are soon going to find ourselves running out of fish. trawlers strain through the seas, trapping turtles and dolphins and watnot, and tossing back numerous other specimens not commercially rewarding. we are wreaking havoc on oceanic ecosystems. does this not worry the world?

you hear of deserts encroaching upon human settlements. the sinai and arabian deserts, as examples, supposedly are expanding at a rate of...something metres per year. sea levels are rising. icebergs are melting. ozone holes are widening. arable land is rapidly decreasing. fresh water supplies are drecreasing. air is being increasingly populated. and now even cow farts are threatening to engulf us in an even more potent greenhouse effect. wtf?! and the human population is exploding.

if we REALLY wanted to save the world, the very first step is to give lots and lots of free condoms to india, bangladesh, brazil, etc. these guys are screwing like rabbits, producing vast numbers of humans whose contributions to the world do not justify their consumption of lots of resources. we cannot factor in China because China's rate of population increase per couple is not so dramatic. nationally of course they are expanding fast but thats due to their huge base.

mind meandering back to the seas...and now fish are containing toxically high levels of arsenic and mercury and pregnant women are discouraged from eating too much fish. blood cockles give hepatitis.
and to be even more dramatic.. there is Sars..Aids..Jesus..will we see your return this generation?