The ignorance, selfishness and shortsightedness of the Human race is difficult to truly believe, isn't it? But it's true. Over-fishing, dynamite-fishing, beam-trawling, mile-long nets, factory-ships at sea for months on end...it can't go on can it? World over, we can visit every shop and supermarket and buy tuna steaks, tuna flakes, tinned tuna...surely it's going to run out by about next Tuesday. The bass would seem to be on a similar path unless we can change those influential minds in government and industry. I believe we need more of a Trump-style philosophy, one based less in the minutiae of how drastic measures might have a commercial knock-on effect, just a common sense decree that certain practices must stop - full stop. Yes, it's a sledge-hammer mentality but we need drastic answers to drastic problems and we hardly ever hear or see MPs putting their heads above the parapet...there's no fire in the Westminster Wimps...no real conviction or determination to crack-down where necessary because it might offend someone: why have the major trading nations not threatened sanctions against, say, Brazil who, we're told, says goodbye to a Wales-sized area of the Amazon Rain Forest every year? How many more years do we have? The world - no less - depends on the Amazon and other major jungles; the Amazon may be mostly Brazilian but we all need its continued existence so to permit its destruction is a Crime Against Humanity - is it not? We'll go to war over oil yet we allow the lungs of Planet Earth to be destroyed in the name of profit. Why is there not infra-red surveillance of the great game parks and a shoot-on-sight policy to combat elephant and rhino poaching? Why doesn't vehicle-theft attract an automatic 25 year jail sentence? The problem would cease overnight! Gun crime, knife crime, muggings, malicious computer-hacking, fly-tipping...we could stop it all in an instant if the punishment was right. But the powers-that-be clearly have no interest in a crime-free world because, I believe, there's simply just too much money to be made...the whole legal profession would be decimated and, with it, an entire layer of very well-heeled society. And we can't have that, can we?
