What’s your answer to the exploitation of nature and its complete destruction?

Canada had the richest stocks of Cod on planet earth around Newfoundland.

John Cabot once said they were so plentiful cod could be taken “not only with nets but with baskets”.

However without regulation and the rise of supertrawlers and factory fishing the entire stock of was demolished within 15 years.

In 1994 the entire Cod industry of Newfoundland collapsed with 30-40,000 job losses.

Now every nation more or less uses quotas and fishing regulation to protect fish stocks.

There was a moratorium on fishing for the last 30 years and only last year as a little bit of fishing allowed once again.

The same process occurred for passenger pigeons and the American bison. Where they were made extinct or nearly extinct as result of the unconstrained operation and of the market. Same for the North American beaver whose skin made excellent hats.

The Bison only survived because the market bottomed out and their leather became less valuable fast enough for a small minority to survive.