As reported in BBC News on 11-2-06, many scientists now believe that at the current rate of loss of sea life, the ocean's sea life will be mostly extinct within fifty years due to global warming, over fishing, etc. If this is true, it could have huge impacts on life as we know it.
2006-12-28 09:26:48 · 10 answers · asked by bruiser 2 in Environment
It would make extreme impacts.
- The different cultures who depend on the sea life for food and many other uses.
- Economically by the loss of jobs, such as fishermen and seafood resturants.
- Agragcultural. The lack of sea life would increase meats and produce demands. Crops, which are already not being rotated throughout plots enough, would increase. The land won't have enough time replenish with nutrients, ultimately leaving humans with a decrease of important vitamins and minerals consumed from vegetables and fruits.
These are probably just a few impacts that could occur. Though, I doubt sea life will become extinct, at least not within 50 years. The oceans are so vast, that only a small percentage of it all has been explored and mapped out. Either way, it's always important for humans to take precautions to make sure it actually never does happen.
~Take Care~
2006-12-28 09:50:10 · answer #1 · answered by Erato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally believe that any break in the food chain could initiate the breakdown of all life on earth.
That being said, I also know that species (plants, animals, mountains, lakes) all have their life cycles. What humans may see as a calamitous event may, in fact, just be nature's way.
We haven't been around long enough to see the beginning and end of a species and our guestimates of when and for how long a species existed is just that...a guestimate. Based upon the findings wrought of some pretty good technology but, nonetheless, we have no idea how to interpret the end of a species.
For example: What if aquatic life drains certain elements from the ocean, elements that are essential to the earth being able to mend the ozone & resolve air pollution? What if the fish in the ocean are so cannibalistic of the seas resources that their very existence threatens life on the surface of the planet? Is the end of sea creatures as we know them not a catastrophic event to be avoided at all costs but, in reality, the earth's remedy for a viral parasite that has been plaguing the earth for millennim after millennium?
Perhaps we should not be looking to ourselves as the cause of such a magnificent change in the balance of nature. Are we so egotistical to think we could cause the end of an entire life system? Are we so egotistical as to think we could prevent the end of a life system from ending? And, finally (and cheekily) are we really so egotistical that we can actually sit back and point to potential causes of such an event.
I hear a belly laugh, deep from inside the planet...
Just a thought.
2006-12-28 09:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by Liligirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even though it variety of feels extra valid than the different stuff I even have been examining, i actually do not think of we could have fish-much less oceans via 2050. there are a number of of of species accessible nevertheless being got here across immediately and as existence continuously has, evolution has a tendency to step in. I do have faith something needs to be achieved approximately how lots we sell off into the oceans besides as our fishing practices. Time to be extra ecologically friendly, we're not the only species in the worldwide (i'm specific some beg to selection)!
2016-10-19 02:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Less food.. Don't get so excited about global warming, it's over fishing period. Global warming should actually help the oceans.
2006-12-28 09:29:29 · answer #4 · answered by thorian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmf.. If you like to eat fish, and fishly products... I don't worry, because a true genious like me could get a few fish, and with my cloning device I made 2 years ago, have enough fish for the whole U.S.
The fish, may I say, would NOT be cheap...
2006-12-28 09:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet. Many populations depend on the sea for food. There are many places in the world where other sources of food cannot be produced, such as by agriculture or by raising meat animals.
2006-12-28 09:28:35 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Won't effect me at all ... I'll be dead. Even if, by some miracle I'm still alive, I'll fall back on that eternal favorite ... peanut butter and jelly!
2006-12-28 09:36:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no brain food in the form of essential fatty acids from fish oil..
2006-12-28 09:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by Cheryl E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it will kill all the animals that feed on fish also. seals, whales, dolphins, turtles, and all the other animals.
2006-12-28 09:35:59 · answer #9 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We''ll just have to eat all the cows!!!!
2006-12-28 09:35:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋