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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 182513" data-attributes="member: 9521">Sadly, things like this represent just the tip of the iceberg. Below the water are hundreds to thousands of abandoned fish netting that continue to trap and kill their intended prey day in and day out. Add to this the ubiquitous plastic grocery bags that when dumped into the ocean look very much like delicious jelly fish, sea turtles favorite food. And you need watch &quot;Deadliest Catch&quot; to see how often a crab pot is lost to get an idea of how many of these pots lie on the bottom of the ocean trapping the creatures who are attracted by the dying of the creatures who were caught after being attracted by the dying of the creatures who were caught....I believe there is more than enough evidence to declare that we have now entered a new epoch that has been tentatively referred to as the &quot;Anthropocene&quot; thus acknowledging the ongoing mass extinction taking place at the very moment. Turns out this extinction event, the 6th in the line of 5 previous mass extinction, mark the end of one epoch and the beginning of another. In the last great mass extinction that made us humans the big winners makes you wonder who, or what, will be the big winners from this current mass extinction. Btw, has anyone read Kurt Vonnegut's &quot;Galapagos - A Novel&quot; ?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 182513, member: 9521"] Sadly, things like this represent just the tip of the iceberg. Below the water are hundreds to thousands of abandoned fish netting that continue to trap and kill their intended prey day in and day out. Add to this the ubiquitous plastic grocery bags that when dumped into the ocean look very much like delicious jelly fish, sea turtles favorite food. And you need watch "Deadliest Catch" to see how often a crab pot is lost to get an idea of how many of these pots lie on the bottom of the ocean trapping the creatures who are attracted by the dying of the creatures who were caught after being attracted by the dying of the creatures who were caught.... I believe there is more than enough evidence to declare that we have now entered a new epoch that has been tentatively referred to as the "Anthropocene" thus acknowledging the ongoing mass extinction taking place at the very moment. Turns out this extinction event, the 6th in the line of 5 previous mass extinction, mark the end of one epoch and the beginning of another. In the last great mass extinction that made us humans the big winners makes you wonder who, or what, will be the big winners from this current mass extinction. Btw, has anyone read Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos - A Novel" ? [/QUOTE]

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