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Humanity making progress like it always does (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to guess it wasn't a decision, so much as tech availability and pricing. radar, sonar, more powerful boats with bigger trawl nets.

If they'd had that stuff earlier it'd be the same tragedy of the same commons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Fair.

If we could've fucked things over a decade ago, we definitely would've!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Somewhere there was an asshole who made a decision, one of our failures as a (global, makes it harder) society is failing to hold responsibility accountable. Do the crime, do the time.