By now we should all be used to the feeble reasons that the green wellie brigade keep coming up with in an effort to convince us all these new taxes are really to save the planet. But the latest one is unbelievable.
They are now saying that because we are killing too many sharks it is causing global warming! And if the floods, the famine, a meteor from out of space or an illegal immigrant with a machetee doesn't get us then this will!
"Sharks are apex predators and, as such, play a pivotal role in regulating ocean ecosystems. Oceans, which cover more than seven tenths of the Earth’s surface, harbour algae; via the process of photosynthesis, algae remove vast quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere and produce most of the oxygen we breathe.
Without sharks to prey on them, the creatures that feast on algae will increase exponentially in number, potentially wiping out what is perhaps, according to climate expert Sir James Lovelock, the single most important cooling element on Earth."
So stand by for a new tax on fishing, just in case you catch a shark by mistake!
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Stories like this really do my head in.
I remember one from a few years ago about wiping out cockroaches but if it happened man would not exist in a few years because of the disruption in the food chain.What?I have never seen a cockroach stop a Tesco's lorry when it's delivering food to the store.
Why don't we try killing all the cockroaches in a country nobody like,Iraq,Iran and Afghanistan and a few others spring to mind,and if everyone dies,well,we just stand on the roaches.
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