Posthuman Blues

Study: Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain

"'I think the point is there is nowhere left in the ocean not overfished,' said Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and lead author of the study."

Scientists agree world faces mass extinction

"Yet most scientists agree that human activity is causing rapid deterioration in biodiversity. Expanding human settlements, logging, mining, agriculture and pollution are destroying ecosystems, upsetting nature's balance and driving many species to extinction."

But wait! There's more!

Vast Extinction Crisis Looms

"The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEW) will publish a report on Wednesday stating that more than 11,000 endangered animal and plant species, including more than 1,000 mammal species, or 1/4 of the world's total, are likely to go extinct over the next few decades. 12% of bird species and over 5,000 different plant species are also likely to die out. In the oceans, the loss is already almost immeasurable, with almost all major species of larger fish at risk, and massive diebacks of plankton in the Antarctic, the North Sea and elsewhere contributing to the destruction of whole ecologies."