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by pvaldes 1193 days ago
Equals to kill several millions of people. Bad idea.
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Worse idea: doing absolutely nothing to change our course of action until our decisions no longer matter because ecosystems have collapsed and hundreds of million of people are dying. That's how you get The Jackpot.
Trying to solve complex problems with simple improvised solutions is the definition of populism, and is normally worse than doing nothing.
We have to do something. This is something. Therefore, we have to do this.
Hunting ocean fish to extinction will have the same effect.

So, we may as well save the fish.