https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/climate/louisiana-crawfish-disaster-us-climate/index.html
Treats but also “Climate change decimates animal population, threatens food supply”
Ignoring environmental shit this obviously indicates, crawfish is a very important social food in the southern US. The only food that still has an entir event named after it, the Crawfish Boil. This isn't just losing treats, they're losing the thing that served as the yearly family reunion. I actually see this having social effects beyond treatbrained people being upset
Our town used to have a sweet clam bake every year until it became almost exclusively a full day drunken brawl and hardly anybody even made it to dinner.
In a planned economy, you could pull all of the ships into port and give the crawfish population time to recover unimpeded. This would result in far fewer losses overall.
Counterpoint: wow, why did you advocate for genociding Taiwan, tankiescum?
Ships in to port? What? Crawfish grow in ponds and swamps and ditches. Commercially in ponds. No ships involved.
Recall all the fishermen then, logic is the same. I was imagining the boats from forrest gump but that's shrimp isnt it.
I mean... this is a food source. not something useless and dumb like videogames
Things are gonna get ugly once the treats stop. Imagine if we couldn't grow corn. It's in everything
The treats are legitimately the only thing keeping Americans from committing mass suicide
Like what point is there to this shithole if you can't be fat and dumb as fuck. You take the HFCS and it's done.
Crawfish shortage IS a national emergency!!!
Don’t you look down on us crawfish lovers. It’s better than being some snobby lobster eater.
You will eat the bugs.
You will live in the cypress hollow.
You will serve the PMC alligators.
You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
300million yearly to the state economy eh?
The specific findings of this study are summarized in Exhibit ES-1 and discussed below: • In 2019, the oil and gas industry in Louisiana contributed $73.0 billion to state GDP from the production, processing, transportation, distribution and retailing of crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and petroleum products. The state income generated by this activity within the state represents approximately 26% of total state GDP. These values include direct, indirect, and induced impacts.
Source: https://www.lmoga.com/assets/uploads/documents/LMOGA-ICF-Louisiana-Economic-Impact-Report-10.2020.pdf
I don't think anyone who could help cares even the tiniest bit. And those who do care will see no relation between oil extraction and crawfish. Why those two things couldn't be more different I'm sure.
The wild thing is that Louisiana, compared to other oil-producing states, has incredibly low excise taxes. They are getting absolutely fucked ten ways to Sunday and will scream at you if you suggest oil companies should pay more. The jug-hooters truly think the oil companies will move the oil wells elsewhere if they had to pay more.
The ruling class's global warming is stopping the flow of the Gulf Stream/Atlantic Conveyor, the crawfish are just the beginning. Coastal areas of Florida are already tuning into petroleum infused bouillabaisse.
This is what happens when you forget to tap the climate gauge so the dial jumps back to yellow.
If you want the people of Louisiana to rebel against the oil companies, all you'd have to do is tie declining crawfish harvests to climate change. You'd have a state of Maoists in twenty minutes.
IIRC (used to live in Louisiana), after the BP oil spill, oil execs were offering shit tons of money for people to take them to and from the spill site. A lot of fishermen (who could no longer fish) told them to fuck off. The offer was on the table, and I remember a bunch of suburban chuds taking out loans to buy boats so that they could do it. Looking back in to it now, it looks like BP was sued for not pay people to ferry them, like they promised lol
I've heard they're invasive in many other parts of the world. Would be good to figure out a way to harvest them there.
It's kind of insane how invasive crawfish can be. Some introduced species with outcompete local crawfish species and vice versa. Ultimately they're ridiculously hardy.
They're actually very easy to raise in aquaculture from what I've read
