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Re:Keith Davis was protecting the oceans, then he disappeared by zozbot234 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:28AM (#32733228)
Commercial chicken is not hunted in the wild, so I'm not sure how that comparison makes any sense. The oceans are already being depleted of fish in a highly unsustainable way so if you care about that protein source, shutting down large-scale fishing altogether is exactly what you should do.
Re:Keith Davis was protecting the oceans, then he disappeared by dukeofdoom on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:54AM (#32733404)
The logistics of what you are proposing is just not there, unless you're cool with committing another man made famine like the Holodomor. I actually find it disturbing with the ease you're willing to starve the poor of the world.

Ocean fishing requires very little energy input, but provides huge amounts of ready to eat food output. You can't replace that in many parts of the world. Not every place has good farm land for one, or the technological infrastructure, or even political stability.

Give you and example. Egypt went from a population of 8 million to 80 million in the last century. Do you think they can grow all that food in the desert? or do they rely on fishing and on global imports of food items...like grain from Ukraine. How will the poor do when you take out one of their sources of food. While simultaneously the price of energy is sky rocketing and global trade is under threat do to conflict and as countries begin to hoard fertilizer and food for their own populations, in anticipation of the the coming winter.

Re:Keith Davis was protecting the oceans, then he disappeared by wumpus on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:08AM (#32733509)
> Ocean fishing requires very little energy input

So all of those studies pointing out that most ocean fishing only happens because of subsidized fuel are wrong?

Re:Keith Davis was protecting the oceans, then he disappeared by djbebs on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:27AM (#32737548)
Anytime someone tries to argue that fossil fuels are being subsidized, it's safe to ignore every argument they will ever make on the subject.

When someone can't even acknowledge reality there's really no point in engaging.