Monday, July 14, 2014

science channel depression

so the king crabs are invading the eastern north atlantic and crab lovers have mixed feeling about that because crab lovers who love crabs for their taste are thrilled because the price of king crabs ought to come down but crab lovers who love crabs because they love crabs as in nature lovers as in vegans and vegetarians are sad because they don't want to kill crabs or have crabs killed... being kind of in the middle, a former vegan who loves the taste of crabs, i hope the flood of crabs brings the price of crabs down in the western atlantic (fill the big boats and ship 'em over, aye mate?) and the sensitive environmentalist in me sees things from both sides (it is the science and eco-balance that brought me back to being an omnivore, the taste buds cheered but did not drive that bus) and realizes that over-population of any animal (four hundred thousand larvae in a single birth is a bit amazingly over-doing it), including humans, is destructive to all life on the planet... so fill the big boats is the ultimate balance from my perspective...

i mean, do you know about the lionfish? (hundreds of thousands of eggs each time, over 2 millions eggs a year from each female)... some dumb human with a home fish tank may have destroyed the eco-system of the south western atlantic... fish lovers, yeah... anyway, the show doesn't have it's own website yet, but it's a fairly raw balance of pro and con environmentalism as it focuses on how human intervention allows other predators to dominate huge areas of the world... ultimately, if you watch enough of the science channel, it is quite easy to become depressed... humans are so carelessly self-destructive almost all the time (and deliberately self destructive the rest of the time)...

sigh, it's enough to drive a rational being to depression...

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