Our antidepressants in the water are making the fish come undone 
By Kevin Bloom ZA Source: dailymaverick 5/17/2022
Kevin Bloom
Credit: Our antidepressants in the water are making the fish come undone
An item appeared in the international news media last Friday that was next-level apocalyptic. More than a hundred fish species off the Florida coast had been found with heavy traces of human pharmaceuticals in their blood, most of which were antidepressants. The fish, of course, were exhibiting some strange and dangerous behaviours. Question is, will there be a wake-up call in here for us?
 

It’s a cliché these days to observe that the news can be a hazard to our collective mental health. The prospects for the ignition of World War 3 in Eastern Europe, new variants and outbreaks of a pandemic that we thought was over, increasingly shrill warnings of the collapse of our biomes and the attendant unravelling of modern civilisation — none of these stories, which are now standard fare across most of our major media platforms, encourage what is colloquially referred to as “balance”. Still, through our enforced numbness, some stories shout louder at us than others.

 
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2995The underwater “eye” that is unlocking ocean secretsvox2022-04-20US
2996Hundreds of dead fish found in Vancouver Island creekcbc2021-06-07CA
2997Lake Champlain threatened by new invasive fishwcax2022-04-06CA
2998‘Devil vessels’: China’s fishing fleet faces claims of pillage and abuseFT Daily Digest2022-04-04UK
2999Sabah marine police foil diesel smuggling and fish bombing activitiesnst2022-04-07US
3000Koi lovers gather in San Jose for 14th annual competition, exhibitionmercury news2022-04-19US

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