I’ve posted occasionally about peak phosphorus: the gradual mining of one of the three major nutrients required for food growing (the others being nitrogen and potassium). Phosphorus is lost forever as we flush our bodily waste to sea, and as this link suggests, worldwide phosphorus production peaked as long ago as 1988. The writer Richard [...]
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Bycatch: more "we didn’t mean to" ecocide
This practice occurs when boats decide to dispose of fish which they catch but cannot land or derive income from, or when they have caught more fish than they are allowed to land, or they discard the less valuable fish in order to make more space for more valuable fish. For example, the report cites [...]
The coming water shortage, and we’re in denial
Conservationists at the British Nihilist Underground Society bring us another gem, this time on the coming water shortage, and why people just aren’t thinking about it: Most of us at times have had to cut back on our water use, perhaps installing a toilet that has a half-flush function, using a shower rather than bath, [...]
