Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 14, 2022

I think that whirring sound is Johnny Hart turning in his grave.

Or maybe cut down all the trees to build boats.

Fish mongering

“At the end of the day that doesn’t leave much. If we stop breathing the World will last a whole lot longer than we will….what the hell man?”

The ecosystem has been created and destroyed many times before. Meteor impacts, ice ages, mass extinctions. The biosphere will restore itself in time, that’s a certainty. Whether or not humans will still be here is an open question.

So, what about the story of the loaves and fishes?

Maybe this explains all the boats: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-fishing-fleet-the-worlds-largest-drives-beijings-global-ambitions-11619015507

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; give a man a poisoned fish and you feed him for the rest of his life.

Can’t you use your Wiz powers to send those boats somewhere else?

Between overfishing and using the oceans as a plastics garbage dump, life in the seas is rather a hard time for quite a few fish and other marine life.

At this time, the ecosystem is fine so long and the fishermen are only using rod and line.

we destroy everything. that’s what we do

Humour???

Find yer own body of water! This is waaaay too full.

Man has been fishing for thousands of years. The eco-systems is fine notwithstanding. But ecologists fall for that hook line and sinker.

The ecosystem recreates itself after many years… but it’s the first time a species is responsible. And it’s being done far earlier than it’s suppose to.

Give a man a media platform, and he doesn’t have to figure out how anything works, he can just make uninformed criticisms and blame the wrong people for problems he doesn’t understand.

Alternate ending: Teach a man to fish…and the socialists will take them from him and give them to those who don’t want to fish.

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Feed the man to the fishes and you can have them all to yourself.

True!

Ain’t it the truth??? And destroy ecosystems even faster when dumping fish and weeds not home to an ecosystem…

Looks like what happens on Wicked Tuna.

My version is: “Give a man a fish; he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish; that man owes you some fish.” :)

The most frightening line in “Soylent Green”: “The fish are all gone.”

Bless your heart!

There’s plenty of other fish in the sea, Wizard!

“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fight, and he’ll feast on the meaty marrow of his foes for a lifetime!” – Coxswain Ulrich