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Climate capers continued

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We have more food now PER CAPITA than at any time in history.
mhaze,
Well, thaqt depends on your definition of food. There are a lot of things you can eat but are they nourishing ? Look at vegans, they eat what they believe is good for them but it doesn't appear to do anything for brain cells.
Same as alcohol, it can save your live in sterilising but knocks brain cells dead. Marijuana too is credited with medicinal powers but look what it has done to so many brains !
Fast food is another one along with sugar-laden drinks !
Posted by Indyvidual, Saturday, 14 October 2023 6:45:37 PM
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"Well, thaqt depends on your definition of food. "

Substitute the word 'calories' for 'food. I was dumbing it down to suit the current audience.

We grow more calories now PER CAPITA than at any time in history.
Posted by mhaze, Sunday, 15 October 2023 5:21:31 AM
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Would that be a lack of fish, or a lack of fishing JF Aus?

It was in the mid 70s that the diet of much of PNG & the Solomons changed with the introduction of rice. Much easier scooping out a cup of rice, than digging gardens & catching fish.

In the mid 70s I sailed down through the Solomons a number of times, & was amazed to see this change, not only on plantations, but villages also.

I also found much of the traditional; fishing trips had been abandoned, due the the loss of their large canoes.They no longer produced the big 70+ft canoes that acted as mother ships on fishing expeditions.

I acted as mother ship on a few of these trips where almost entire village populations would travel to unpopulated reasonably remote islands to fish for a week at a time, smoking their catch to take home, thus augmenting the local supply.

I recently did a google earth trip over much of my old stamping grounds. Most of the islands have hugely expanded populations. One atoll I know very well, 30 miles long & 8 wide, with 60 islands exhibited over 3 times the number of houses, & 4 dozen canoes, against the dozen back in the 70s. This was common in most of the islands. Perhaps population has exceeded their food supply.

Obviously this is not considered as it would not suit the narrative.
Posted by Hasbeen, Sunday, 15 October 2023 10:20:48 AM
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mhaze,

Calories are a measurement of energy where I am referring to shortage of essential amino acid protein nutrition.

Plenty of food? Are you sure?
If all humans in the world sat down for 3 meals a day there would not be enough food, especially not enough animal protein that is essential.
Vegetarians get their essential nutrients from mixing legumes and nuts at the same meal but worldwide supply of that mix is very limited.

Hasbeen.
I agree with what you say about the 1970's but the situation has changed since then. Supply and availability red affordability has absolutely changed.

Climate change is suddenly being blamed for ocean fish and ecosystem devastation but that caper non-sense does not show how.

There is no narrative here.
Just insight about many seafood dependent people in big trouble because academic literature and thinking by people like yourself can't see the fish depletion and impact and solutions.
Posted by JF Aus, Sunday, 15 October 2023 1:21:19 PM
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We have heard of the very large fishing fleets from China causing
problems up near the Philippines.
Cauld they be the cause of smaller catches ?
Posted by Bezza, Sunday, 15 October 2023 4:05:28 PM
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Incidentally JF Aus, have you ever heard about the sand pumping stations, used to get sand from south of the Tweed to the Gold Coast, & again to get sand north to replenish Noosa beach. It just doesn't happen naturally.
Posted by Hasbeen, Sunday, 15 October 2023 9:25:42 PM
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