• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    You can see where they decided “Profit, with no consideration of anything else!” was the answer

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      5 months ago

      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.

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        5 months ago

        Fair.

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

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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        5 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.