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Maybe we should approach the question from the other side. - We need more fish than can be sustainably caught. - Most of the ocean is a desert [1] due to the
by chr1 8y ago
Maybe we should approach the question from the other side.
- We need more fish than can be sustainably caught.
- Most of the ocean is a desert [1] due to the lack of essential elements close to the surface, and only near the shore or in places where current brings nutrients up from the depth there is a significant amount of life.
- Ocean surface acts as a giant solar battery because of termocline.
This means we can create floating platforms that would pump water from seabed to the surface, creating vast new fisheries and at the same time removing carbon from the atmosphere since this essentially is a controlled form of iron fertilization.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_production https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_production
- toper-centage 8y agoLeave it to humans to develop convuluted engineering for problems nature already solved but we destroyed, just to avoid solving the real problem: we eat way too much fish and meat.
- chr1 8y agoSo far nature have not solved the problem of most of the earth being desert and all of the live ending in 600mln years [1]. One could argue that having humans (trillions of them) is natures way of solving these problems, and having less people that eat less fish doesn't help with any of these. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future