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by chefkoch 934 days ago
Ressources aren't our problem.

We have enough fossil fuels to change our climate, destroy the soil with too much fertilizer and build fishing trawlers until the oceans are empty.

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The oceans are huge
So are deserts ... neither of which are especially relevant to whether or not the parts that produce most of the fish are being over taxed beyond replenishment rates or not.

This casual "the world has infinite resources to sustain unlimited human growth" is a bit 19th century and hasn't dated well.

Lol Malthus was literally 19th century.
> Malthus ...

Name a century without contrary characters and governments.

'LoL' and 'But Wat About' aren't considered responses.

Ocean resources are being depleted - it's simple enough to look up over fishing and a variety of reports on this from about the planet, not just direct overharvesting of fish, also reef destruction and other side effects from net dragging and industry that drive numbers down.

More importantly, ~50% of fish we eat are harvested through aquaculture rather than wild caught.