Chile's stricken salmon farms
Dying assets
A bankrupt industry faces reform
Jul 30th 2009 | Santiago
Jul 30th 2009 | Santiago
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Surely another example of monoculture and overcrowding and polluting the water with unnatural food. As with pigs, feedlot cattle, coffee and the "broca" drill beetle, turkeys, etc. Humans want to go to one place and get it all, rather than a million years of hunting around for what they need among a diversity of plants and animals. Back to Nature, please.
And the trade off Alan McCrindle points to is grossly unfair: the gains are usually reaped by a few, while the costs of the collapse end up being shared by everybody.
A great example of the frequently unrecognised consequence of the trade off that exists between efficiency and resilience.
While "gains" occur in the short term the costs remain "hidden" until the system collapses - much like securitisation and the sub-prime market and the emergent flavour of the month - cloud computing.
Hum how sad. Chilli could build a renewable industry, focouse on quaility, and fish that is desease and hormone / anti bacterial free. Charge a premium and distingusih itself from all the other fish farmers. It seems they will just go for the conventional comeback though