At the start of the new year reports of 100,000 fish dying in an Arkansas river was shocking to say the least. In this age of environmental toxins and absolute disregard for environmental regulations, my first thoughts were that this was an isolated event. I figured once the government ran some tests the it would become clear who dumped what toxins where, and why this particular group of fish ‘Drum’ were most affected. As more info was revealed it became apparent that no single pollutant was at play.
The fish and bird deaths are now global and number in the millions.
A pollutant would have affected cross species. Stephens says, “Ninety-nine percent of them were Drum, which is a bottom feeder. It’s not a game fish in Arkansas.”
To make things worse, thousands of birds have fallen from the sky in Louisiana and Arkansas. Early reports showed that that they died of internal trauma mid air. Across the Atlanctic ocean reports are now coming out of Sweden that birds are falling out of the sky there. Being a good sport I was still willing to give government officials the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps these were in fact separate isolated incidents, freak of nature events.
This morning however, the media is once again flooded with new accounts of millions of dead fish washing up in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay in the U.S and on shores are far away as New Zealand. These “isolated incidents” are now a global event. Each death zone is located thousands of miles and several oceans apart. The numerous global events clearly show that the theories presented by biologists so far are ludicrous in nature. No single thunderstorm, high altitude hail, fireworks, or environmental pollutant could travel that far and cause the simultaneous death of fish around the world.
If there was ever a need for government transparency during an investigation this would be it. We now live in a world of instantaneous information sharing, in the coming days I expect to see a deluge of videos and photos from around the world showing the full scale of this epidemic. What do you think is the cause, leave a comment below?
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