16 votes

Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”

3 comments

  1. [2]
    ConalFisher
    Link
    Everything is under existential threat these days. We as a species simply do not give a shit about any of it, not when there's money to be made. And that will never change. Technological miracles...

    Everything is under existential threat these days. We as a species simply do not give a shit about any of it, not when there's money to be made. And that will never change. Technological miracles are our only hope anymore, nuclear fusion coming along to solve our energy problems, lab-grown meat becoming cheaper than farm meat, gene engineering and god knows what else to stop antibiotic resistance. Humanity is more than capable of solving all our problems with the tools we have on hand; hell, it could have solved them with the tools on hand in the 60's. We just don't give enough of a shit to solve any of it.

    8 votes
  2. X08
    Link
    Imagine spending years on research, lots of public funding going into this. To uncover some scientific basis to base judgement on. For it to only see nothing done with it. Harrowing.

    Imagine spending years on research, lots of public funding going into this. To uncover some scientific basis to base judgement on. For it to only see nothing done with it. Harrowing.

    7 votes