X-Message-Number: 22008 From: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:25:10 EDT Subject: Julian Simon's fishy extrapolation --part1_161.21b582bd.2c1fd606_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark, Simon didn't say that the tragedy of the commons wouldn't kill off all our food fish. There is no technical reason that the oceans cannot be made more productive of food. Twenty years ago I read in an aquaculture book that Chesapeake Bay could produce five times the world's annual production of seafood... if Chesapeake Bay were a private mussel farm. Nothing has changed since; at sea, humans are still destructive hunter-gatherers, just like our forebears that killed off the Pleistocene megafauna. --part1_161.21b582bd.2c1fd606_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22008