U.N. says world fisheries face collapse

[knightfisher]

My analysis for a simple solution to the article below,

is have the money driven

corporations and powers that be, stop the suppression of

alternative energy.

Electric cars were developed over 75 years ago, but not

enough $$$ could be made from the costs, to operate these

vehicles so that technology was put aside.

Just imagine how technology could of developed over 75 years.

The greedy visionaries of that time saw the potential of

trillions of dollars with the use of oil and gas comsumption.

The technology of hydrogen driven cars was delibertly

suppressed because of the trillions to be made with oil/gas.

I'm sure the release of the air powered car from Tata Motors

in a few years is causing some concern to the powers that be.

But rest assured this techology which has been out and suppressed

for a long time, will be slow in developing until the powers

that be can find a replacement so they can continue to suck out

the $$$$ out of the people on planet earth.

U.N. says world fisheries face collapse

MONACO (Reuters) - A deadly combination of climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the collapse of commercial fish stocks worldwide within decades, said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Program.

"You overlap all of this and you see you're potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of world fisheries," Steiner told reporters on Friday on the fringes of a climate conference involving more than 150 nations and 100 environment ministers.

Some 2.6 billion people worldwide depend on fish for protein, said a UNEP report "In Dead Water" published on Friday.

Climate change has compounded previous problems such as over-fishing, as rising temperatures kill coral reefs, threaten tuna spawning grounds, and shift ocean currents and with them the plankton and small fish which underpin ocean food chains.

"The question is not whether we should stop fishing but to address climate change, which is creating a degree of impact we've not seen before," said lead author of the UNEP report, Christian Nellemann.

"We are getting more and more alarming signals of dramatic changes in the oceans. The recovery from the changes we're making will probably take a million years."

The report found the most affected areas included those responsible for half the world's fish catch.

A slowing of ocean currents as a result of climate change may over the next 100 years interrupt the transport of nutrients to the most valuable coastal fishing zones, and the flushing away of pollution.

In other impacts, Nellemann said he expected more than 50 percent of coral reefs to die by 2050 as a result of rising temperatures, with resulting impacts on tourism.

Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels create an acid when dissolved in water, and could over the coming decades make the sea more acidic than at any time in the past 65 million years, and by 2100 could prevent mollusks in some seas from forming shells.