Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying
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| History repeats itself: the path to extinction is still paved with greed and waste |
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| Wednesday, 07 April 2010 16:29 | |||
Read Full Article by Jeremy Hance 
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As a child I read about the near-extinction of the American bison. Once the dominant species on America's Great Plains, I remember books illustrating how train-travelers would set their guns on open windows and shoot down bison by the hundreds as the locomotive sped through what was left of the wild west. The American bison plunged from an estimated 30 million to a few hundred at the opening of the 20th century.
When I read about the bison's demise I remember thinking, with the characteristic superiority of a child, how such a thing could never happen today, that society has, in a word, 'progressed'...
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