Die-offs: The Biggest News That Isn't News

Cid_Yama

This week's pop news quiz: define "die-off?" Doesn't ring a bell? You're not keeping up then.

Die-offs are big in the news these days. Oops, that is not quite true. Die-offs are not big in the news these days. And that is big news. Or at least it would be if the stories that made big headlines were the ones about events that will have the biggest impact on the lives of the most people.

The week's lead die-off is among the salmon out here on the West Coast. On April 11, all commercial and recreational salmon fishing was forbidden for the year for the entire coast of California and Oregon. In the past a move like this would have triggered an angry war of words of fishermen vs. environmentalists, sportsmen vs. state agencies, indigenous peoples vs. everyone else. But now there is just an eerie silence. Why? Because there is nothing to argue over. So many salmon have "died off," it's all irrelevant. It is as if the battle between logging companies and environmentalists over old growth forests was suddenly silenced by the discovery that the forests were simply no longer there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/die-offs-the-biggest-news_b_96798.html
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Jack · Dark Lord Joined: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 5065

Interesting. I wonder if the much-anticipated human dieoff will occur because of a complex interplay of factors that cannot be unraveled? That would be an interesting little development.

Cool

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Gerben

Soil depletion, water shortage, climate change, aids, peak oil, toxins in our food chain, wars. There's plenty of causes. It won't be clear what actually tipped the balance.

FourOfSwords

We're living through the 6th great extinction, and nary a word...
...I don't think it's a matter of not reporting it, I think its a matter of not understanding it.
Alex

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tick66 · Tar Sands Joined: Apr 23, 2005 Posts: 25

We probably have reached the tipping point and really the first thing main street media will do when they get a clue is to find an entity to blame and after they have exhausted all other means to continue as "normal" they will admit that we need to change. I am feeling pretty doomerish today so I thought I would share the wealth.

Razz

steam_cannon · Expert Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 2460 Location: MA

Ludi

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