Whale Fall

As a Seattle resident, I had no idea that our beloved Killer Whales were the most toxic animal on the planet.

Doing a little research, I did find an article[1] from 2009 that states this is because of contaminated salmon, who appear to pick up toxins from the Pacific Ocean (as opposed to rivers) off the coast of the US (Canadian fish fair better).

It also notes that " The state of Washington has issued some local fish advisories, including a recommendation that people limit eating Chinook from Puget Sound to one meal per week."

Information for life.

[1] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/contaminated...

We need to do more as humans by using less. That's the greatest hurdle humanity faces. Our over abundance and materialism has some very negative consequences. The sad thing is modern economics and politics still largely overlooks externalities to push short term "job growth" rather than long term sustainability. I hope that changes but it's easy to be overly optimistic.

Amazing writing.

Lovely writing. But sad: someday we will find a way to kill everything in the sea.

It's incredible, I go to scroll up one line up to re-read it, and the header completely blocks it.

Mods, this needs a (2006) tag.