Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan is apparently reborn. He returns to his flock and spreads the good word in a sort of Sermon on the Garbage Mount: "Listen, everybody! There's no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never have to live on garbage again...
Rampaging floods in India and Pakistan. A devastating drought in Africa. The disappearance of fish off the coast of Peru. These recent, widely reported phenomena all have something in common. Though they were triggered by nature, their magnitude was increased disastrously by man's trying to expand his food production without considering the ecological side effects...
Peru's loss is in the sea, where the cold waters of the Peru (or Humboldt) Current once teemed with anchovies. Every year millions of tons of the sardine-like fish were caught and ground into fish meal, which was then sold abroad as a high-protein feed for livestock and poultry. About every seven years, though, the anchovy bonanza was interrupted for a few months when a mysterious flow of warm water overrode the cold current, causing the fish to disappear temporarily...
When the warm current returned late in 1971, however, it lingered on for more than a year. Result: the fish catch plummeted, and the Peruvian government banned most fishing last year to give the anchovies a chance to proliferate again. But when the fishermen were permitted to put out into the cold current again this spring, they came back to shore almost emptyhanded...
Steve looks as hale and hearty as most fisherman. His wrinkles are not the result of old age but the product of years in the salt air. Still, he rises with a look of pain and he moves slowly, like a trapped fish too tired to gasp...