Comments on: What I Learned Today: Shellfish, Fisheries, Oil, and More http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/08/19/wellfleet/ because technology is just another ecosystem Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tecosystems » I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/08/19/wellfleet/comment-page-1/#comment-465219 tecosystems » I Have Squandered My Days With Plans of Many Things Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:59:50 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2237#comment-465219 [...] of the Cape, that trip, as discussed, was surprisingly interesting. While I’m disinclined to attend morning activities of any type [...] [...] of the Cape, that trip, as discussed, was surprisingly interesting. While I’m disinclined to attend morning activities of any type [...]

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/08/19/wellfleet/comment-page-1/#comment-458184 Geof F. Morris Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:39:52 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2237#comment-458184 The capacity for humans to study their world and see the great changes that it's witnessed and yet expect the world to remain constant during their lifetimes never fails to amaze me---and I find it true for myself, so this is not really casting stones from a glass house. I guess my big concern in environmental stuff isn't so much climate change [because again, the lesson of geology is that climate change happens] but pollution. What we do in this world to foul our water supply grieves me. I have had the thought, though, that rising fossil fuel prices will end up retarding the very engines of globalism that seem to be fueling some of the worst changes. As you note, seafood is becoming more localized as it gets more expensive to transport. Sure, that hurts those whose livelihood is wrapped up in satisfying far-flung tastes, but local forces have always done a very good job in supporting economies. I have high hopes, but yeah ... anytime the rate of change is this rapid, people get hosed, which is sad. The capacity for humans to study their world and see the great changes that it’s witnessed and yet expect the world to remain constant during their lifetimes never fails to amaze me—and I find it true for myself, so this is not really casting stones from a glass house.

I guess my big concern in environmental stuff isn’t so much climate change [because again, the lesson of geology is that climate change happens] but pollution. What we do in this world to foul our water supply grieves me.

I have had the thought, though, that rising fossil fuel prices will end up retarding the very engines of globalism that seem to be fueling some of the worst changes. As you note, seafood is becoming more localized as it gets more expensive to transport. Sure, that hurts those whose livelihood is wrapped up in satisfying far-flung tastes, but local forces have always done a very good job in supporting economies. I have high hopes, but yeah … anytime the rate of change is this rapid, people get hosed, which is sad.

]]> By: David Churbuck http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/08/19/wellfleet/comment-page-1/#comment-458016 David Churbuck Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:24:45 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2237#comment-458016 Brilliant post and analysis of the situation on Cape Cod and elsewhere in coastal towns. Wellfleet is especially exposed to the vagaries you describe because so much of the economy is dependent on aquaculture -- the town is by far the most advanced in the country in terms of shellfish management (I'd place Point Reyes and Tomales Bay in California second). The oil issue is big -- a lot of sportsfishermen are at the dock and staying there. Canyon trips for big game -- no way no how unless you are really in Rodney Dangerfield mode. Invasive species. Huge issue, but bigger is nitrogen loading from human septic. If Cape Cod doesn't go to state of the art sewering it will be game over for water quality within the decade. Excellent post. Brightened my day in a windowless room in Beijing. Brilliant post and analysis of the situation on Cape Cod and elsewhere in coastal towns. Wellfleet is especially exposed to the vagaries you describe because so much of the economy is dependent on aquaculture — the town is by far the most advanced in the country in terms of shellfish management (I’d place Point Reyes and Tomales Bay in California second).

The oil issue is big — a lot of sportsfishermen are at the dock and staying there. Canyon trips for big game — no way no how unless you are really in Rodney Dangerfield mode.

Invasive species. Huge issue, but bigger is nitrogen loading from human septic. If Cape Cod doesn’t go to state of the art sewering it will be game over for water quality within the decade.

Excellent post. Brightened my day in a windowless room in Beijing.

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