The variety of species in the world's oceans has dropped by as much as 50 percent in the past 50 years, according to a paper published today in the journal Science.
A combination of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change has narrowed the range of fish across the globe, wrote biologists Boris Worm and Ransom A. Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and three other scientists. In some areas, such as off northwest Australia where a wide variety of tuna and billfish used to thrive, diversity has declined precipitously...
Mass extinction? "Bring it on..."
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I have a lot of things partially done, can I have your energy rant in full please?
Sure.
My first posts were concerning the abundance of benthic marine bacteria producing methane and the fact that hydrocarons are produced by biological sources.
Later, I suggest that biotechnology already makes use of the genes for such bacteria, and that using such organisms for energy production would be an intelligent application of biotechnology.
Then I point out that there are already a class of microorganisms that use photosynthesis to produce hydrogen, and suggest this would be a far cheaper and environmentally friendly source of hydrogen than the industrial processes advocated by Cheney.
There is no reason not to develop such alternative energy sources. These organisms could be easily and inexpensively used by any country in the world. Their availablilty would end the energy monopolies we have today.
I go into the political reasons why alternative energy production isn't being developed here. My thesis is that the fall of fossil fuel availability over the next 50 years will consolidate world exconomic and political power in the hands of a minority as much of the world returns to a pre-industrial feudal state.
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