Hey Mike,
I did look through some of your 'website'. I see that it's mostly quotes that you cut and pasted
into it with no real articles of any substance, but one thing that caught my eye was your resume.
Under your 'favorite foods' section you list "Japanese (especially sushi)". Of course you must know
the environmental impact that bottom trawling is having on the worlds oceans? Here's a quote from
www.weeklyplanet.com in case you don't.
"Words bandied about in the environmental community -- overfishing, marine meltdown, disaster --
tend to be ignored by the general population. Fish, after all, is a renewable resource, isn't it?
Unfortunately, fish aren't harvested like renewable crops. They're mined like coal by massive
factory ships that prowl the seas. The world catch of fish went from 19-million tons in 1950 to
90-million tons in 1997. The United Nations says that almost three-fourths of marine fish stocks,
and 11 of the 15 major fishing grounds, are fully exploited, overfished or depleted. And the U.N.
Food and Agricultural Organization says another 30-million tons are destroyed when fish caught
"accidentally" are thrown away. According to The Audubon Society, for each pound of shrimp caught, 7
pounds of other marine life, including sea turtles, are killed and discarded -- what the shrimpers
call "trash fish." Long-range industrialized fishing fleets from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Russia,
Norway and the United States employ methods that catch the most fish, namely drift nets that are
more than a mile long, and bottom trawling. Andrianna Natsoulas, of the Greenpeace Oceans Campaign,
says, "Industrialized fishing from any corporation is incredibly destructive. Bottom trawling,
dragging huge nets across the ocean floor ... it's like clear-cutting the ocean."
So Mr Ph.D, you can crawl back under the rock from where you came and come out when you have NO
impact on the environment, which will be never. Incidentally, I can pretty much rip apart everything
under your "favorite foods" section if you'd like to see the impact that YOU are having on the
environment. Of course, I haven't even begun on your "favorite restaurants" section yet.....
Greg
www.treelimb.org