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I have family working as a UN advisor on sustainable food chains and she says the entire ecosystem in the oceans could potentially collapse in 10 to 20 years if

I have family working as a UN advisor on sustainable food chains and she says the entire ecosystem in the oceans could potentially collapse in 10 to 20 years if we don't stop large scale fishing entirely, especially trawl and unreported fishing destroying the seafloor and acidity going haywire. I have no idea if this is correct but i'm pretty sure around 1 billion rely on this food and can't imagine what would happen if this somehow got removed from the system. Does anyone know if it's really that bad?

tokai 3y ago
They have already collapsed some places in the world. Like the Baltic sea where a keystone specie like the cod is in so much trouble that it seems irreversible.
TSiege 3y ago
I read a lot about these sort of bleak predictions from people very in the weeds on the topics, but rarely see it being surfaced in a way that's easily citeable. I've seen second hand reports that the Amazon rain forest will experience it's tipping point within the next 3-5 years no matter what happens and even that it's already tipped, but we haven't figured it out yet. Frustrating that such dire claims aren't widely reported and made more aware. I fear that everything climate/earth system related is stuck in with the view that we should only say how bad things are when it's already over and measurable beyond any sort of doubt. That obviously leaves the public with no time to act
- adrianN 3y ago
  The public simply refuses to believe the truth. Facts don’t matter anymore in the public discourse.
PaywallBuster 3y ago
farmed fish is probably not as vulnerable and there's many that can be created in inland ponds so it simply could be a shift in consumption
delfinom 3y ago
It's not could, but will. The countries that are doing the overfishing have no intention of stopping. Western countries already heavily regulate their fishing industries.

tokai 3y ago

They have already collapsed some places in the world. Like the Baltic sea where a keystone specie like the cod is in so much trouble that it seems irreversible.

TSiege 3y ago

I read a lot about these sort of bleak predictions from people very in the weeds on the topics, but rarely see it being surfaced in a way that's easily citeable. I've seen second hand reports that the Amazon rain forest will experience it's tipping point within the next 3-5 years no matter what happens and even that it's already tipped, but we haven't figured it out yet. Frustrating that such dire claims aren't widely reported and made more aware. I fear that everything climate/earth system related is stuck in with the view that we should only say how bad things are when it's already over and measurable beyond any sort of doubt. That obviously leaves the public with no time to act

adrianN 3y ago
The public simply refuses to believe the truth. Facts don’t matter anymore in the public discourse.

PaywallBuster 3y ago

farmed fish is probably not as vulnerable and there's many that can be created in inland ponds so it simply could be a shift in consumption

delfinom 3y ago

It's not could, but will. The countries that are doing the overfishing have no intention of stopping. Western countries already heavily regulate their fishing industries.