China is quietly strip-mining one of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet, and almost no one in the Western environmental movement seems all that interested in it. Americans are lectured nonstop about plastic straws, beef eating, BBQs, and carbon footprints, while Chinese industrial fleets are ripping massive amounts of krill out of Antarctic waters at a scale that scientists say threatens the entire food chain.
Krill is a food-source foundation for whales, penguins, seals, and countless other marine animals who depend on them to survive. Krill also play a major starring role in regulating the global climate by carrying carbon into deep ocean layers. If you get rid of them, this will cause real-life damage in ways that can’t just be quickly or easily reversed.
So why is this happening now. Because China sees Antarctica as a resource to be taken and exploited, not something to be protected or preserved for everybody in the world. And those same environmental activists who scream at Americans for driving pickup trucks suddenly get really quiet when the destruction is happening under a Chinese flag.