Wed, 04 Aug 2004

'Dead zone' spreads across Gulf of Mexico

Call it it high (and unnoticed) price of the "Green Revolution". It's only a matter of time before fisheries will be effected by this, and then I guess we'll have to decide if we'd rather have shrimp or wheat. Or both, if we move "backwards" to a sustainable model agriculture.

A huge "dead zone" of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live in it has spread across 5,800 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico this summer in what has become an annual occurrence caused by pollution.

(link) [CNN]

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