LA Weekly

" In 1991, thousands of people were killed in Bangladesh when a tsunami descended upon a stretch of coast cleared of mangroves to produce shrimp farms. In 1960, a tsunami of the same magnitude resulted in no fatalities."

Center for the New American Dream has an excellent page on the consequences of unsustainable shrimp farming.

More here.

And the Pew Oceans Report's section on aquaculture.

Here's the libertarian side, too. Of course, he has to bring up DDT again. Who raised these people?

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