A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert

Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by BurningFrog on Sunday November 20, 2016 @12:44PM (#13000018)

Probably true, but the fact that we eat all those fish is a far bigger short term problem.

I heard somewhere (rumor alert) that jellyfish and other species we don't like to eat are taking over much of the oceans, since we ate most of the fish.

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by giardini on Sunday November 20, 2016 @01:27PM (#13000259)

Open a small business harvesting jellyfish. It is already a growth market in Asia and will be a growth market for the next 50 years in many parts of the USA:

"Southern Fishermen Cash In On Asia's Taste For Jellyfish":

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/01/28/267836803/sou...

"Jelly Balls Harvested by Boone Seafood Darien Georgia":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laArO6Yk-W0

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by xapata on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:31PM (#13001005)

It's not just because of fishery collapse. The changing temperature and pH matters, too. Reefs bleaching and all that.

I wouldn't say it's a rumor. Just a possibility as reported by some researchers. Not a consensus, as far as I know, though there was a book about it summarizing the research.

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