People don't want to accept this for whatever reason, but China, the largest polluter in the world, has been overfishing and illegally fishing. What they are doing is not sustainable and it puts the world's ocean ecosystem at further risk. Unless the international community forces China to behave, they won't. History has shown us that they will not comply on their own.
This isn't something we can solve on an individual level. The problem needs a team effort between EVERY country to solve it. What you said is simply fact. This isn't about political ideologies or opinions, so idk why these people are downvoting.
Let's say we cleaned the entire ocean right now with the snap of someone's fingers... It wouldn't matter if there isn't any sea life to thrive in it. Wake up, people! We need policies that make sense and at least here in the US, the politicians are just virtue signalling, greedy, and incompetent.
It means that if we can't do that, nothing we can do can make a difference
Edit: Fine, fine, fine. If you really want to downvote I'll give you the most useful things you can do as an individual to save the planet: #1 Don't make any first world kids, #2 Don't eat meat.
That is simply not true. If we stop littering and overfishing, we can save so many different species that could go extinct if we do nothing. Sure, to stop climate change, we need china and other states to do something too. In the meantime, we could start saving our reefs and kelp forests.
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u/velocorapattack Aug 12 '21
As an individual, how do we tackle this?
Already don't eat fish.