Wolfgang Korsus Dipl.-Ing. NT, Astrophysiker
Chapter 333/5
About water …. what water….. I’ll start with fresh water, because without it, life is not possible and it has another property, one that is hard to believe….. fresh water is increasingly becoming a „scarce and contested“ commodity. Because if you look at the alarming figure… …only 0.025 percent of global water resources are directly usable by humans.
There is already a water shortage in large parts of the world today, only two out of five „citizens of the world“ have no or only limited access to this vital resource and, without exaggeration, a lack of water already has tragic consequences „today“. It is estimated that by 2025 the demand for water will exceed the amount available by up to 56 percent – a huge threat to everything, all life on earth.
Now to the soil :
Soil is, of course, a „finite“ resource alongside water. Every year, arable land „erodes“ (washes out, washes away, removes) ten to 100 tons of soil per hectare per year. Please, dear readers, take a look at this little tip :
When soil forms naturally, 2.5 cm takes up to 800 years to do so, so a maximum of 0.4 to 1.3 tons of soil per hectare „should“ erode each year. But the soil is currently eroding about „a hundred times“ faster than new soil is being formed. The small reference stammers wisely :
The consequences are already being felt today: the supply of nutrients is increasingly deteriorating, carbon from the atmosphere can no longer be bound, the water filtering function is suffering, as is the biodiversity of the soil. Erosion, industrial pollution, erosion and industrial salinization.
The main cause of this damage is industrial agriculture. Less and less fertile soils are facing a growing world population. Added to this is the increasing overbuilding of soils. In the next 20 years (by 2035), an area of 1.5 million square kilometers will be overbuilt worldwide (Science, 8 May 2015), which is more than four times the area of Germany. „Soil is a non-renewable resource in human timescales,“ says Jes Weigelt from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.
…..and so that every reader doesn’t end up with dinner, I’ll turn my attention to the world’s oceans!
What is a threatening situation? … and then in the world’s oceans ??….easy, really, the pollution is incredibly severe and overfishing knows no bounds. The oceans are on the brink of irrevocable collapse. 29 percent of commercially exploited fish stocks are already overfished or, to put it more kindly, depleted. Another 61.3 percent are fished to their biological limits (FAO, 2016). Subsistence fishermen and local populations often rely on fish as their „only“ source of protein and are now finding it increasingly difficult to survive.
Who, among these mindless politicians and despots worldwide, cares?
Certainly none of them, because I say: they are all rock-hard egotists with the vanity that goes with it
You don’t want to hear it, but the oceans are actually being fished dry!
There are more than a billion people, mainly in developing countries, who depend on fish as their main source of protein. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 61.3 percent of the world’s edible fish stocks are fished to the limit and 29 percent are already overfished or depleted. Humanity is no longer functioning properly…..
The situation is worst in the Mediterranean. Here, more than 90 percent of stocks are considered to be overfished. Yes, even Europe het people….? It is therefore hard to imagine that the EU has acquired fishing rights off the coast of West Africa, for example, for little money, i.e. „pocket money“. They know a thing or two about destruction, which is why oversized, technically perfectly equipped deep-sea trawlers are used to remove marine animals with trawl nets several kilometers long. The nets, with openings the size of soccer pitches and a capacity of 500 tons of fish, take as much fish out of the sea in one day as 50 local fishermen could manage in a year. The Europeans‘ focus on cheap fish is destroying the livelihoods of local fishermen. Many can no longer even feed themselves and their families. …..But it doesn’t matter, they are only Africans ?!
Personally, the only thing that comes out of my mouthpiece is a bland sentence:
They behave like fishing monsters, the true „curse of the seas“!
The Greenpeace publication, which reveals the destructive concentration of power and quotas in the EU fishing industry, says something similar. The European Union and its member states have allowed their industrial fishing fleets to balloon to unsustainable sizes for decades and the oversized fishing fleets are a global problem with alarming, undeniable consequences. It almost sounds humorous when I say that our oceans are in a historic crisis because too many large and destructive ships are chasing too few fish these days.“
Currently, Greenpeace is back on the cutting edge, they have a study published at the end of 2014 and show in the list the biggest „culprits“ at sea. Among these top 20 largest factory ships are also two „German“ ones: the „Maartje Theadora“, as long as fourteen Baltic Sea cutters, and the mega-trawler „Helen Mary“, with which no German small fishing cutter can compete. I would like to add that the EU subsidized the construction of the „Helen Mary“ in 1994 with a whopping 6.2 million euros. You can find more details about the fishing monsters on the Greenpeace website: www/greenpeace.de. What else is on my mind :
Since the 1950s, the amount of fish caught in the world’s oceans has increased fivefold, while the population of fish in the oceans has halved. The conclusion is that, unfortunately, more fish are being caught than are growing back naturally. The result is the extinction of numerous species and additional acidification of the oceans due to CO2 leads to the death of coral reefs. (Hard to believe for those in power and in power, but certainly responsible). These reefs, in turn, are the nurseries for a large number of fish species and marine animals in the oceans. The world’s oceans are being plundered and one of the largest „food sources“ in the world is in danger of drying up.
….. I’ll say it again: those responsible are so stupid that they are even being bitten by clever pigs.
The serious collateral damage on this oceanic battlefield is the by-catch.
The word „bycatch“ is synonymous with bestial death caused by humans…….the beginning takes place in the world’s oceans and has established itself there on a daily basis (yes, worldwide) ! It is mostly the mentally malnourished and thus the scum of the earth who are up to mischief on these highly technical murder ships…..and of course with good pay.
The WWF has also released some devastating figures about the prey off the coast of Africa. The Dutch mega-trawler AFRIKA SCH 24 SCHEVENINGEN, 30 nautical miles off the Mauritanian coast, is doing its „murderous fishing. Thanks to dishonest fishing laws and environmentally harmful fishing methods, the fishing industry wastes many millions of tons of marine life every year. They end up in the nets as so-called „by-catch“. Worldwide, it is estimated that almost 38 million tons of marine animals, or around 40 percent of the world’s annual fish catch, are lost to the ecosystem in this way. While in some fisheries there is little or no bycatch, in others up to 20 kilograms of marine animals per kilogram of target species end up in the net. The bottom line is that bycatch is a gigantic waste. It brings many species to the brink of extinction, threatens the basis of fishing and destroys the sensitive marine habitat. Every time I eat, I feel like living creatures are being treated like garbage. Quite apart from whether we can justify it ethically! Why this waste? It’s insanity prescribed by law. If European fishermen catch fish for which they do not have a fishing permit, they are not allowed to bring them ashore under EU law, but have to throw them back at sea. This catch is therefore ‚discarded‘, which means it has to be thrown back overboard. Most fish do not survive this grueling ordeal. When fishing for plaice, sole or crabs in the North Sea, more than half of the creatures caught are thrown back into the sea – even if they include fish that are on another fisherman’s wish list. Regardless of the losses ……. It is not only the bad laws of those in power that are to blame, but also the destructive fishing methods that the majority of ships still use to catch fish.
I will list some of these murderous tools here: So these include the beam trawls used in fishing for plaice, sole and crab. The so-called scouring chains of the beam trawls dig through the seabed, and countless crabs, starfish, mussels and juvenile fish end up in the nets, which the fisherman then has to dispose of cleanly. There are also masses of cases in other marine areas where seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals get caught in fishing nets or on the hooks of longlines that tuna are supposed to bite on.
Unfortunately, in most cases these animals are unable to free themselves and drown miserably. Whales, for example, are often strong enough to break free. However, net remnants can wrap themselves around their fins, fluke and head and cause deep injuries. Bycatch can, „no, can be prevented! Around 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises drown every year as unwanted „“ in fishing nets. This means that “ more whales die each year than during the heyday of whaling in the last century. Tens of thousands of sharks, seabirds and sea turtles also die unnecessarily. Yet the solutions are already at hand: Bycatch can be significantly reduced simply by using so-called ’smart nets‘, differently shaped hooks or escape windows in the nets. The fishing industry should not hesitate any longer, but should quickly convert to such techniques, and politicians should explicitly oblige them to do so and support them in the conversion process….und.
Damned bigwig ruler politicians and other living people, get your brains working again and start loving and protecting your planet.
Then finally !!! ……. there would be hope again for our sea creatures.“ The WWF website also shows what everyone can do as a consumer and living homo to exert more pressure on politicians in Brussels in particular and elsewhere in the world to promote legal, sustainable fishing and protect the world’s oceans, their flora and fauna: www.wwf.de
However, it is not only unsustainable but aberrant fishing that will become a problem in the future, but also the increasing littering and poisoning of the world’s oceans by the idiot „man“. Tiny plastic particles can now be found along the entire food chain, and many chemicals are accumulating in the Arctic in alarmingly high concentrations-in …… FISH AS WELL AS IN HUMANS. ,
Agriculture follows !!!