tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3703218508386026780..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Think of Climate as a Finely-Tuned Engine Gone Screwy.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36829402133535847002019-01-03T12:31:25.190-08:002019-01-03T12:31:25.190-08:00.. anyone interested can follow the thread we had ..... anyone interested can follow the thread we had Mound, re east coast malpeque oysters. They take 5-7 years to 'cultivate' must be harvested via giant chopsticks from dories.. it takes family traditions and families to do so.. its just like dairy farming in that way, or husbandry of any such resource. But for the most part - 99.9 % Canadians write off west coast First Nations as 'eccentrics' at best.. for crying out at their shellfish and herring being trashed.. the bringing of the supertankers and the Orca being abandoned means nothing to 'prairie boys' Scheer or Kenney.. or Trudeau. 'Price of Progress', 'nation building' and the Economy they saythe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-79315034542569469552019-01-03T11:45:18.816-08:002019-01-03T11:45:18.816-08:00When I was seven years old, the company my father ...When I was seven years old, the company my father worked for sent us to Texas for six months. We weren't far from Corpus Christi. I dont' remember much from that time. But I remember that shrimping was big business. Like so many other things, climate change is resshaping that -- and our own -- world.<br />Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39340626553836056982019-01-03T11:23:08.982-08:002019-01-03T11:23:08.982-08:00I just read in the Seattle Times that two of their...<br />I just read in the Seattle Times that two of their Puget Sound orcas have suddenly taken ill and aren't expected to make it to summer.<br /><br />We need to figure out how to defend this amazing coastal ecosystem. Part of that entails mapping the migration of southern marine life - fish, mammals and sea birds - into our waters, predicting what's coming and how to respond to them. That's complicated, especially when it comes to deciding what native species can and should be protected and what have to be lost.<br /><br />Then there's the growing problem of man-made pollution, the stuff that's now entering the food chain at the seabed and working its way up, bioconcentrating in dangerous levels as it progresses upward even into the salmon and their predators, the orca. Imagine the devastation a seabed spill of sludge bitumen laced with acids, carcinogens and heavy metals that will leach into the food chain for decades will cause. That, of itself, justifies ousting the federal jurisdiction even if that means going it alone.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89184670806866909312019-01-03T10:49:56.061-08:002019-01-03T10:49:56.061-08:00.. I worked a shrimper briefly out of Corpus Chris..... I worked a shrimper briefly out of Corpus Christi.. of all the bad things I did to my hands.. probably the worst. Hardy folks akin to our maritimers were the shrimpers. Right now we have a fragile remaining national treasure.. very similar on a stupendously more robust marine coast. Yes that would would be British Columbia. And somehow its seen more as an exit point called 'tidewater' for petroleum exports to Asia to enrich 'our economy'. Sadly we must extirpate habitat and species to achieve such 'nation building' - and whether inland or coastal marine is irrelevant. The creatures and environment are in the way. Oh, forget the boreal caribou there in the interior.. gotta be sacrificed, recall the iconic 25c piece, close to worthless anyway.. I cannot list the species that will crash and burn in the headlong political wet dream to Asian export.. and 'jobs jobs jobs' because I'm not a wildlife biologist.. But we have obvious alternatives, policies to enact, progress to be made. We do not have to 'be like Trump' and frack national parks or wildlife preserves, or trash fresh water. We are not a 'frontier to pillage' - we do not need to bury First Nations deeper in misery or ruin our inland waters.. or screw our coastal environments. How are the east coast fisheries doing, bye the bye ? Still dead ? We learn nothing ? How about east coast lumbering ? OK we are good out there re potatos and the offshore oil is sweet .. but why is Alberta overstocked with east coast maritimers and temporary foreign workers ?the salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.com