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Re:Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years by DaniFong on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @03:31PM (#1358716)
FYI, we did kill a huge fraction of the world's megafauna before agriculture.
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Re:Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years by hga on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @03:52PM (#1358799)
You're right, I'd forgotten that.

In Australia they killed the megafauna but never went back to the agriculture they'd had and perhaps forgotten, or so said Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel.

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Re:Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years by vdm on Thursday May 20, 2010 @06:53PM (#1365754)
That book is amazing.
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