Healthcare and the Marine Crisis

Andrew Sullivan's blog on Healthcare, Sarah Palin and Obama's Death Panels gave me pause to reflect on healthcare and the marine crisis. If you missed, it's here.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/palinapproved-death-panels.html

Whether or not Obama really plans death panels or not, or whether it's all just economics that determines whether you get healthcare or not, it's an absolute fact that the destruction of the marine ecosystem is driven by government policies, overpopulation and economics. We humans have outgrown our planet, we have the technology to harvest the oceans down to the last coral polyp and amphipod for food and we are gonna do it. In the U.S. neither political party wants to address the issue of overpopulation. The Democrats don't because they see the high birth rate demographic groups like Hispanics to be likely future voters and the Republicans don't because they don't think government should have anything to do with it.

Where it leaves us is every day more hungry mouths to feed--and we want to feed them healthy with, what else? sea food. But the real future if something isn't done is more like the movie Soylent Green (oops we're back to the death panels again aren't we).