Yes, We Have No Cod

A couple years ago I read somewhere that banana plants are expected to be wiped out, worldwide, in a short time—due to some disease or other that had glommed onto the most commonly raised banana trees. (Once as a kid in the Congo I cut down a banana tree out in the forest, and its owner tracked me down a half hour later, demanding to be paid, but that's another story.) Bananas, OK, I like 'em but I could live without them. Fish, though, would be a terrible loss. So I can't understand why this report, which has appeared in a number of places, hasn't gotten more coverage. No more fish to catch in the ocean in less than fifty years! Hell, I might even still be alive then. But I just can't imagine a world where you can't have fish for dinner. Perhaps by then it'll all be farmed, or grown in petri dishes, but that's really not the same. I wonder sometimes what people two or three generations from now will think of us?!