{"id":420,"date":"2006-01-05T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/01\/the-sea-stripped-bare-by-her-trawlers\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T07:53:00","slug":"the-sea-stripped-bare-by-her-trawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/01\/the-sea-stripped-bare-by-her-trawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea Stripped Bare By Her Trawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night GGF was off on a family jaunt, eating multiple exotic courses with wealthy relatives in a top class restaurant, and so I enjoyed the luxury of a fish and chip supper on my own in front of the TV. Wonderfully relaxing, delicious and requiring only a ten minute trip out. By the time she returned, joyful and full of dessert which cost more than my entire meal, I was replete and dozing blissfully, ignoring the Top 100 Best Fish and Chip Meals in History<\/i>, narrated by Stephen Fry.<\/p>\n

Deep sea fishing is wiping the sea bed clean<\/a> according to this BBC report. Deep sea fish species in the northern Atlantic are on the brink of extinction. Look at this before and after picture, more chilling than a Birds Eye cabinet:<\/p>\n

News like this is getting more and more commonplace and although I am not surprised, being a fully paid up member of the Harbingers of Eco-Doom Society, this one hit me. Maybe it’s because I am myself a Piscean, and so I empathise with fish everywhere. Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, and I love fish and chips so.<\/p>\n

This joyous, simple meal is rare occasion for me these days, a throwback, something nostalgic to be savoured. I now find myself wondering if I am measuring my life in such last moments. There really will soon be no fish and chips, as there will be no fish. Soon there will be no chicken, either, as bird flu makes its irresistable way across weak boundaries and finds a new home in humanity.<\/p>\n

When the Sainsbury’s supermarket at the other end of Liverpool Road was built, I read that with its electronically-controlled thick steel shutters, it can be totally shut in two minutes and is one of the most secure places in Islington. The architects – the owners of the supermarket – were anticipating future riots, it seems, and looking to safeguard their property. <\/p>\n

We will all shortly be far worse off than the Eastern Communist populations – whom we glorious capitalists love to boast of rescuing from their food queues – ever were. There will be food shortages following along after fuel shortages, and with stomachs rumbling, shivering and cold, the people of the West and the North, citizens of the “developed” world will suddenly realise that this brief excursion, this unsustainable epoch where entire populations live decadent wasteful lives consumed by gluttony, has already ended. We’ll blame it on collective idiocy and greed, and the failure of politicians and politics to adequately control industry, anybody but ourselves, as we watch the chip shops close one by one.<\/p>\n

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