About
Hello and welcome to Planet over Profit. Our goal with this blog is to discuss the challenges of reconciling the economic system with our planet’s ecology. It is our hope that you will begin to see that environmental issues (global warming, pollution, etc.) are not about the details that you hear so much about (e.g. he said this, she said that), but rather they are about how our human system interacts with the planet’s system. In discussing the nature of conservation debates and the green movement, we hope to help you understand how you can really make a difference should you be compelled to do so. The major question facing us in these times is can we survive if we don’t respect the limits of the planet?
We don’t plan to bore you with academic debates here, rather we plan to use real world examples to keep you up to date on the latest happenings and how it affects your world. As we both work in the sustainable seafood movement, how to make green seafood choices will be a main focus. In this blog, you will see stories about happenings in the sustainable seafood movement including a history of the movement, detailed information about which seafood items you should and should not eat and when you may be able to eat them again. We will also try to convey some very detailed information about how some of the seafood items that you like to eat are produced from first hand field reports and try to explore some of the big arguments and debates about what sustainability really means. We will do this under the microscope of seafood but we think that you will see that there are parallels for every other key debate facing our planet. Our sincere hope is that all these topics will lead you to become a more informed consumer about the threats facing our oceans and freshwater ecosystems and understand how, if you want to, you can make a big difference. We are both very excited about this initiative and encourage your feedback as we go along.