Aquaculture

Pescatarians (vegetarian plus fish, and other seafood if one is a more liberal pescatarian) may need to raise their antennae and tune their frequency modulator to the proverbial channel hosting the alarmists who are sounding the gong of doom concerning rising global temperatures. Ocean salinity, acidity and circulation patterns would certainly be one of the first dominoes to fall if the hypothetical global warming threshold is breeched, making the cultivation of fish, algae, oysters, or virtually any other marine life that collapses in the category of aquaculture virtually impossible. China’s economic train, including the coal car of agriculture and aquaculture, would be brought to a grinding halt – and considering China accounts for more than half of the world’s aquaculture, this would be globally devastating to the nth degree. The ramifications would reach far beyond simply not being able to enjoy the occasional lemon-peppered tilapia, the turkey of the sea, but would rather mushroom into a global hunger crisis, since so much of the world’s food supply depends on the proper balance of the ocean’s dynamics – food chains are, indeed, intricately intertwined webs that dangle on a few delicate threads. Of course, if the full effects of the hot breath of global warming breathing down our necks turns into a vampire bite on the neck, aquaculture collapse will be the least of our worries. Typhoons and hurricane super-storms would abound, and food supply in general would do the opposite of abound…frightening stuff to say the least. Now if only there were a verse from scripture that indicated, in a covenantal fashion, that summer and winter, hot and cold temperatures, and planting and harvesting would not cease as long as the physical earth endures…wait, we may just be on to something here: “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” (Gen. 8:22)