Even Catalyst is reporting on the concerns of scientists over human activity and its consequences. Jellyfish aren’t fish and fish feed a large percentage of the worlds population despite our depredations. A quick look on the net uncovered 2005 figures, which underlines the food problem for Asia, 70% of the world consumption of fish occurs there. So the question is can science save us from ourselves?
The human race seems collectively unable to accept the consequences of an unlimited growth mentality in a ecologically interdependent world. We hunt species to the point of extinction, dump our waste indiscriminately, and burn whatever we can in order to keep the wheels of industry turning. It seems hopeless.
I wonder what the future humans of the next century will think of us, if they manage to exist?
Catalyst: The Rise of Slime – ABC TV Science.
