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- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I'm not sure how useful the USMC reserve is going to be in protecting the ocean from anything but pirates.
- tmbrwolf19, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12The worlds oceans are a shinning example of 'Out of site, out of mind.' We use drag nets, we dump our nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons into them, and numerious other horrible things. Most modern commercial fishing is analogous to using a line of bulldozers to hunt for deer. Yet people still claim that since fishing catches continue to grow, that the oceans must be just fine. The fact that technology is greatly out pacing the rate that any fish population can reproduce is completely ignored. To put it simply, the oceans are a mess, but marine reserves aren't going to do anything. The problem is that no one enforces international treaties, and international waters a free for all. Until serious action is taken against those who disregard international law, no number of marine reserves are ever going to do anything. Even then, we still have to dramatically reconsider fishing methods and quotas.
When the first European explorers first came to North America, Cod were so plentiful that you could catch then in a basket at the surface. 250 years later, the cod fishery is collapsed and it looks like it will never recover, yet we have changed nothing. If anything could be a more disturbing omen for the future of our oceans, that should be it. - InfiniteNothing, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Nature can save itself? tell that to the black rhino
- n8f8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Marine RESERVES not Marine RESERVISTS.
- scorchedearth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Reserves are only a partial solution at best.
We need to stop the rampant overfishing that goes on everyday and then, we can leave the oceans alone. They will repair themselves if we just stop for a bit.
If this doesn't happen, say goodbye to the human race. - ukthom, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Nature will adjust...we just may not be around to see the end result of her adjustments...
- Lagstorm, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8Agreed. We barely understand our own ocean's dynamics and biology. We won't even keep our species alive for more than 2 million years at the rate we're going. Who the hell do we think we are thinking we can "save" anything.
- XZanatos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have a better idea: lets stop growing people.
- XZanatos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I will not stand by and let thousands MORE species get "adjusted" to extinction.
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Bali tiger couldn't "adjust" fast enough.
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2... huh comment problems. _West African_ Black Rhino for clarification
- mahdaeng, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was thinking the same thing. Maybe if reserves from all the branches worked together...
- Shaggy3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Or we could just.... Stop polluting the planet?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No I'm not jsrothwell, but anyone who has a brain sounds the same to ron paul zombies
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I read the title and thought "How does a global network of reserve US Marine forces have anything to do with saving the ocean?"
Oh the times we live in... - TheChihuahua, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, that'd be awesome! Anytime someone goes to, I don't know, boil a kettle with too much water in it, Marines could pounce and blow the ***** out of em! YEAH!
...wait.... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Short Answer..YES~
- heynow21, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1More reserves are good. The ocean is getting raped.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Will you guys just STFU about Ron Paul, the more you spam the less I think of him because he's got a group of mindless supports! Anyway, a global marine reserve can save our oceans, but it's like a fishing restriction...
- MadN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0We need a surge?
- zephc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I hope you realize that jsrothwell was trolling there. I would think the sarcasm in his tone would make that evident.
- UnkelJethro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I gots my lawn chair ready. Humanity had a good run but it's over when we're appealing to Marine Reserves for help. These are the people too lazy to join the actual Marines.
/not even a reserve - UnkelJethro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Free the ***** out of it!
/yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHAW - UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1So let's stop eating fish.
- Legopirate, on 10/10/2007, -9/+6let me guess, volcanoes are the cause of global warming right?
We are raping this world beyond repair.... and I feel sorry for humanity that is alive in a few hundred years... they won't be able to appreciate what wonders of nature we still have left now. - jsrothwell, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0If Ron Paul was a fishman, he'd solve this!
- mwrl, on 10/10/2007, -17/+11Nature is more powerful then people give it credit for. The more people try to "save it" the worse it gets. Nature makes changes, let it adjust itself.
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