{"id":8414,"date":"2015-05-24T06:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T11:49:34","slug":"unprecedented-mass-die-offs-as-pacific-ocean-turning-into-a-desert-off-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8414","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean \u201cTurning Into a Desert\u201d Off California Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/unprecedented-mass-die-offs-as-pacific-ocean-turning-into-a-desert-off-california-coast_05212015\" target=\"_blank\">Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean \u201cTurning Into a Desert\u201d Off California Coast<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29113\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/mass-die-offs-california.jpg\" alt=\"mass-die-offs-california\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOcean\u2019s dying, plankton\u2019s dying\u2026 it\u2019s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They\u2019re making our food out of people. Next thing they\u2019ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You\u2019ve gotta tell them. You\u2019ve gotta tell them!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was the dying cry of Charlton Heston in the creepy 1973 film\u00a0<em>Soylent Green<\/em>\u2026 and it could resemble our desperate near future.<\/p>\n<p>The ocean is dying, by all accounts \u2013 and if so, the food supply along with it.\u00a0The causes are numerous, and overlapping. And massive numbers of wild animal populations are dying as a result of it.<\/p>\n<p>Natural causes in the environment are partly to blame; so too are the corporations of man; the effects of Fukushima, unleashing\u00a0untold levels of radiation into the ocean and onto Pacific shores; the cumulative effect of modern chemicals and agricultural waste tainting the water and disrupting reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>A startling new report says in no uncertain terms that the Pacific Ocean off the California coast is turning into a desert. Once full of life, it is now becoming barren, and marine mammals, seabirds and fish are starving as a result. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/19\/the-ocean-off-the-coast-of-california-is-turning-into-a-desert-marine-ecosystem-crash-is-unprecedented\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Health<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The waters of the Pacific off the coast of California are a clear, shimmering blue today, so transparent it\u2019s possible to see the sandy bottom below [\u2026]\u00a0<strong>clear water is a sign that the ocean is turning into a desert, and the chain reaction that causes that bitter clarity is perhaps most obvious on the beaches of the Golden State, where thousands of emaciated sea lion pups are stranded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean \u201cTurning Into a Desert\u201d Off California Coast \u201cOcean\u2019s dying, plankton\u2019s dying\u2026 it\u2019s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They\u2019re making our food out of people. Next thing they\u2019ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You\u2019ve gotta tell them. You\u2019ve gotta tell them!\u201d It was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,128,5614,5615,4773,5617,2142,5616,1215],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-chemicals","tag-die-offs","tag-mass-die-offs","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-pollutants","tag-radiation","tag-sea-life","tag-toxins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}