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The Canadian government was carefully monitoring Atlantic cod too. Until they completely collapsed. These systems are apparently too complex for us to make good

• philipkglass 7y ago
  Scientists correctly predicted that catch quotas needed to be set much lower. The government discounted the lower-end predictions of sustainable catch rates or even ignored them outright, choosing instead to "balance" the scientists' advice against "socio-economic considerations." But nature cannot be fooled, so socio-economic conditions deteriorated abruptly and catastrophically in the 1990s as the ecological conditions did likewise.
• ska 7y ago
  These systems are apparently too complex for us to make good predictions. I don't know if that is true so much that good predictions are rejected for political reasons. See also climate change.
• jonnydubowsky 7y ago
  At the precipice of collapse, it becomes a game of Jenga.