The title is taken from the included link, written by Jennifer Lance for Red, Green and Blue, a website dedicated to environmental politics. Does the title sound inflammatory to you? Well, you should take into account that the writer’s family is supported by commercial fishing, including dungeness crab and king salmon. The short article is about the collapse of the salmon fisheries on the west coast. It is serious, and it effects many people across the population, from those who profit by it commercially, either through direct fishing, or through the tourism industry, or those who simply like to eat salmon. This is a concern that is serious for everyone, but, will we as humans ever be able to get it together to stop our wholesale abuse of the environment, and return to sustainable fishing and agriculture, land and water use? We are supposed to have the most sophisticated brains on the planet, too bad we don’t use them for good, but run things to ruin for profit. Also, though I have been tracking the Bush administration’s neglect and abuse of the environment, this problem has been going on for a long while, and transcends political parties. It is a human problem.

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