Are we demolishing our ocean life?

Over fishing? I wish over fishing was the biggest problem. The real problem is the truly stunning rate at which ocean dead zones are growing. There are currently over 200 dead zones in the world's oceans where nothing lives. And these zones, caused by pollution, are growing at an exponential rate. There are no fish within 50 miles of the coast of Taiwan, or Japan, or China, or India, or Houston, or ...get the idea?

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico alone (caused by pollution from the petrochemical industries around Houston, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans is currently 7,000 square miles!!!!!!

And development is so rampant on the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Coasts that there are almost constant red tide blooms of around 4,000 square up and down the coasts. Works like this: 1. Build 1,000 houses. 2. Sod 1,000 lawns. 3. Fertilize 1,000 lawns. 4. Every afternoon at 3:30 it rains like a son of a bitch for an hour. 5. Rain washes fertilizer into storn drain. 6. Storm drains go directly into Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. 7. Red tide algae goes berserk sucking up all available oxygen. 8. Every living creature (dolphins, fish, manatees, shrimp, scallops) DIE. 9. Multiply by 1,000 new neighborhoods, 80% of which are within 25 miles of the coasts.

Read these:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1019-09.htm

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-19-03.asp

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzone/


Then read my list:

http://www.onmylist.com/category/miscellaneous/Has_the_butterfly_flapp
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Now, connect the dots.